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 Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 6:53 pm Post subject: Reducing system volume / muting when screensaver comes on |
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Hi,
I've been looking for a way to reduce the volume when a screensaver comes on and so far have been unable to do so. The reducing volume bit is fairly easy, but I have been unable to find a way to detect when the screensaver is running. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
On a side note I was wondering whether there was a way to fade the volume in to a certain level e.g. 25% from a lower value through a script.
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Clash
Joined: 27 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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You could write an idle time script with the same idle time as the screensaver.
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time=1 ;activate after 1 minute of idle time.
result := time
result *= 60000
loop {
if(A_TimeIdle = result){
soundset, 0, master,,1
}
sleep, 1000
} |
To fade, you use a loop. These will loop 50 times making the volume go up one notch each loop. There's 100 'notches' in the volume. That is to say if the volume was at 0 you would need to press volume up 100 times to get to max.
| Code: | ;fade up - getting louder
loop 50{
vol:=vol
vol+=1 ; increment by 1. change to 2,3 etc to fade faster
soundset, %vol%, master,,1
sleep, 1000
}
;fade down - getting quieter
loop 50{
vol:=vol
vol-=1 ; decrement by 1. change to 2,3 etc to fade faster
soundset, %vol%, master,,1
sleep, 1000
} |
If you really needed to only mute when the screensaver is activate, you'd need to find the reg key to the screensaver filename. then make a script which waits for that filename to be active using the process command.
You could cut out the reg bit by hard coding the screensaver filename. You can find the filenames in C:\WINDOWS\system32.
I made it myself because i thought it'd be useful. turned out to be really easy.
| Code: | loop {
process, wait, FLIQLO.scr
soundset, 0, master,,1
sleep, 1
} |
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[VxE]
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:06 am Post subject: |
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well, here's my crack at it. This script doesn't check the registry and it hasn't been extensively tested. | Code: | #Persistent
#SingleInstance Force
SetTimer, DetectScreenSaver, 1000
DetectScreenSaver:
winget, pn, processname, A
If (SubStr(pn, -3) = ".scr" )
{
If !sc_on
{
SoundGet, OldSound
SoundSet, 0
sc_on = 1
}
}
else If sc_on
{
SoundSet, %OldSound%
sc_on = 0
}
return |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:36 am Post subject: |
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Works for me. You wouldn't know how to detect if the monitor's off would you? I don't use screensavers.
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orbik
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:39 am Post subject: |
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| Clash wrote: | | Works for me. You wouldn't know how to detect if the monitor's off would you? I don't use screensavers. |
Sry, I don't. I'm sure there's a magic Dll somewhere with a "MonitorStatus" function, but I don't know where.
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