Monitor Power Saving Mode Prventing

[Mark F]

Yes, response on it's way. :)

[mitko]

I know it's not the right place but I'm desperate because I did a lot of searching and couldn't find anything. I hope some of the guys here could help me.
The problem is that I want to be able to prevent the monitor from going off while watching a movie or s.th. else and go off after about 15 minutes when there is no action. I don't want every time to go to Control Panel->Power Management.
Does any body knows if there is a command (API or s.th.) that can stop the monitor from going of or a Message that is sent when the monitor goes off so I can catch it? (I'm talking about s.th. like preventing the Screen Saver from starting by catching the WM_SYSCOMMAND message with WParam = SC_SCREENSAVE). I know this should be possible because Media Player does it - it prevents the monitor from going off while the player is in PLAY mode and allows monitor off when in other mode.

[mitko]

:)
I found the API function that will do the trick
SetThreadExecutionState(ES_DISPLAY_REQUIRED + ES_CONTINUOUS);
but I need to call it from Delphi.
Can someone help me? I'm not good enough in programming :oops:

[mitko]

Mark did you get the PM Reply?