Bug: Unconfirmed BUG: OS Power State Compliance

Holio-Fish · 11-24-2009, 07:33 PM

Let me just start out with a positive statement, that this is a very promising product, and I look forward to the future plans and releases.

BUG: When the monitor goes to sleep, the screensaver does not sleep it graphics display, thus not complying with the OS’s low power state, and instead persisting a higher power state. This statement is based on the application maintaining a high CPU usage. Over time, of course, this actually makes the screensaver expensive.

feldon34 · 11-25-2009, 10:24 AM

Use the Sleep feature to control the framerate of the Aquarium. Eventually there will be a limit framerate feature.

jleslie · 11-25-2009, 01:13 PM

I think if the computer's turned the monitor off it's not unreasonable to expect the screen-saver to stop doing all the 3D stuff...

Jim Sachs · 11-25-2009, 02:53 PM

It's not an unreasonable request. I'll look into it.

rps · 11-25-2009, 06:29 PM

Originally posted by Jim Sachs:

It's not an unreasonable request. I'll look into it.

Hopefully this will save you some time, so you can enjoy Thanksgiving instead of working on MA3... ;-)

Check out the WM_SYSCOMMAND notification and the SC_MONITORPOWER message.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...8VS.85%29.aspx

Hope this helps!

~Ralph S.

Jim Sachs · 11-26-2009, 06:24 PM

Back in the Win95 days when I was first writing the Aquarium, those messages were notoriously unreliable, which is probably one reason I never pursued the whole shutdown thing. Also, it's a very "screensaver" issue, and I never thought of this simulation as a screensaver.

11-24-2009, 07:33 PM	#1
Holio-Fish Registered Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 2	BUG: OS Power State Compliance Let me just start out with a positive statement, that this is a very promising product, and I look forward to the future plans and releases. BUG: When the monitor goes to sleep, the screensaver does not sleep it graphics display, thus not complying with the OS’s low power state, and instead persisting a higher power state. This statement is based on the application maintaining a high CPU usage. Over time, of course, this actually makes the screensaver expensive.

11-25-2009, 10:24 AM	#2
feldon34 Forum Administrator Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Rock Hill, SC Posts: 10,947	Use the Sleep feature to control the framerate of the Aquarium. Eventually there will be a limit framerate feature. "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman

11-25-2009, 02:53 PM	#4
Jim Sachs Developer Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Southern Oregon Posts: 9,816	It's not an unreasonable request. I'll look into it. Jim Sachs Creator of SereneScreen Aquarium

11-26-2009, 06:24 PM	#6
Jim Sachs Developer Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Southern Oregon Posts: 9,816	Back in the Win95 days when I was first writing the Aquarium, those messages were notoriously unreliable, which is probably one reason I never pursued the whole shutdown thing. Also, it's a very "screensaver" issue, and I never thought of this simulation as a screensaver. Jim Sachs Creator of SereneScreen Aquarium

11-25-2009, 01:13 PM	#3
jleslie Engineer Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: London, UK Posts: 1,279	I think if the computer's turned the monitor off it's not unreasonable to expect the screen-saver to stop doing all the 3D stuff...

11-25-2009, 06:29 PM	#5
rps Registered Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 57	Originally posted by Jim Sachs: It's not an unreasonable request. I'll look into it. Hopefully this will save you some time, so you can enjoy Thanksgiving instead of working on MA3... ;-) Check out the WM_SYSCOMMAND notification and the SC_MONITORPOWER message. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...8VS.85%29.aspx Hope this helps! ~Ralph S.