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I agree with srod: every command that returns a success/fail value MUST be checked for their status. Yes, it adds code and is boring to type, but it's essential. OpenWindow, LoadImage, SaveImage, ReadFile, etc -- check them ALL for success/fail. That way, you wouldn't even need IsImage() etc ...

You know Windows has a setting for admins where you can just deny access to removable drives, right?

When you're in someone else's house, you abide by their rules.

Okay then, but if it only monitors the volume, then it doesn't answer my question. I need to know how to mute and unmute Windows. The original code in this thread works for XP, but not 7. If your app just monitors it, then it's no good in helping me (sorry!).

nVidia.

Thanks Michael, but I don't see how to mute/unmute the volume with it? Also, the window was invisible due to the #PB_Window_Invisible flag, and wouldn't show up until I removed the flag. Is that expected?

This code to mute the volume doesn't work with Windows 7. Anyone know how to fix? From what I can see, each app in Windows 7 can have its own volume control, so master mute doesn't work anymore with it.

Perhaps I missed something, but he doesn't want to take a screen shot, he wants to detect when another appliction takes a screen shot.
You did miss something. :) I know that's what he wants to do. My comment was to show that checking for screenshots, that were taken by other apps, by looking at ...

There's plenty of code samples in these forums that show how to take a screenshot without using the clipboard and without system messages.

For getting screenshots, the Active option was elementary to defeat (just grab the screen using BitBlt instead of the clipboard). And the way you kept stopping the clipboard from taking screenshots is not user-friendly at all -- I switched to another window to take a shot of another app, and couldn ...

How is cleaning the clipboard going to help?

nase09 wrote:but Purebasic is Basic, so it would be a bad idea to use e.g. Pascal or C syntax..

So true! Too many people here forget that, and want PureBasic to be something other than Basic. :roll:

Kwaï chang caïne wrote:detect a screenshot make by another application ????

No way. Any app can examine the screen at any time and record the pixels, without using the clipboard.

TomS wrote:Don't you watch the Soccer Worldcup on TV, or aren't there at least some Soccer-Fans in your neighborhood

No, to both questions. That explains why I had no idea what it was. I'm glad you liked it, though.

Can I work with pb4.50 with no problem ?
Of course. What sort of question is that? Do you see a million bug reports here saying that v4.50 is unstable and destroying sources? It's like I said: a one-off glitch when reading the old prefs file and saving the new. Now that your new prefs file is ...