Is there any way to re-enable the display sleep timer? Or do I need to implement my own display sleep timer if I use that API?
Thanks for your help. Shayne Wissler On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Sean McBride <cwat...@cam.org> wrote: > Shayne Wissler (wiss...@gmail.com) on 2008-12-31 3:11 PM said: > >>I have an application that uses NSView's >>enterFullScreenMode/exitFullScreenModeWithOptions in order to toggle >>between fullscreen and normal display mode. Evidently, the default >>behavior while in full screen mode is to disable OSX's display sleep >>timer. How can I re-enable it? I do not want my application to >>interfere with the user's default sleep settings (unless my >>application explicitly needs to when it's in a given mode--but that >>doesn't depend on whether it's in fullscreen or normal mode). > > I can confirm your results. enterFullScreenMode is not documented to > have that effect. It ends up calling CGDisplayCapture(), perhaps it is > responsible for that. > > Sigh. Another reason to avoid enterFullScreenMode I'm afraid. Here's > my list of why: > > - prevents display sleep > - does not allow menubar to autoshow/hide > - does not allow dock to autoshow/hide > - does not allow cmd-tabbing between apps > - does not allow exposé to be invoked > - invoking force quit kills the app instead of showing force quit dialog > - documentation says you can choose the window level > (NSFullScreenModeWindowLevel), but implementation does not honour it, > instead always uses kCGMaximumWindowLevel-1. > - using SetSystemUIMode() does not work with enterFullScreenMode > - other apps are not notified when your app goes fullscreen > (kEventAppSystemUIModeChanged Carbon event) > - going fullscreen invokes "-(void)viewWillMoveToSuperview: > (NSView*)newSuperview" with a nil newSuperview. This is the condition > that one generally uses to call unbind: on one's view. > <http://homepage.mac.com/mmalc/CocoaExamples/controllers.html#unbinding> > > Hopefully in 10.6 this API will become usable. > > Sean > > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
