>George
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>Thats brilliant - thank you so much
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>Then I assume that I need to run your class immeditely after it to keep the screen saver at bay - I have worked out that my program code need to go in my start up before the release in your code - am I right?
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>Alternatively - since the screen will stay up for about 5 minutes - I could build the mouse drag into a timing loop
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>What do you think?
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>Thanks
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Colin,

First, you're welcome.

Second, rather than turn it off immediately, I'd simply check to see if it's already running and, if so, turn it off via the MOUSE commands, then disable it. Note that you can also get the interval (in seconds) via the API call.

BTW, the RELEASE PROCEDURE statement does not release the object created. Further, if you set it (the object) to NULL, the Destroy event will automatically restore the screen saver.