Power Options

[Dobs78]

I've spent the better part of an hour and a half searching for the forums for what I'm trying to do.

Scenario: My company has several model laptops, each with their own power management utility. I've gotten to the point where I can identify the model laptop in use and changing the power management program to windows power management, not a problem with that. However, ran into a bit of a brickwall, and it's probably something obvious and I'm thinking it's more difficult than it is. On the Power Options Properties window, there's a section for "settings for $blah power scheme. Now, the this section is only one control and I've been trying to find a way to loop through to see how many dropdowns are listed within the control and am either having a total brain fart or my search skills just suck today. But what I'm wanting to do is find the number of dropdowns, so I know how many times I have to do Tab, !n to set all power options to Never. This script also needs to be able to run on both desktops and laptops, and dependent of the manufacturer, there could be 3-8 dropdowns.

Any help is appreciated, a link or point me to the function I need to use and I can take it from there. Thanks in advance.

[enaiman]

IMO - your approach to changing the Power Options is tedious and easy to encounter errors.

The registry approach is cleaner, shorter and easy to implement.

Have a look at the registry keys located under:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg

Easy enough to figure what's in there and how to do it this way - good luck.

[martin]

I've spent the better part of an hour and a half searching for the forums for what I'm trying to do.

Scenario: My company has several model laptops, each with their own power management utility. I've gotten to the point where I can identify the model laptop in use and changing the power management program to windows power management, not a problem with that. However, ran into a bit of a brickwall, and it's probably something obvious and I'm thinking it's more difficult than it is. On the Power Options Properties window, there's a section for "settings for $blah power scheme. Now, the this section is only one control and I've been trying to find a way to loop through to see how many dropdowns are listed within the control and am either having a total brain fart or my search skills just suck today. But what I'm wanting to do is find the number of dropdowns, so I know how many times I have to do Tab, !n to set all power options to Never. This script also needs to be able to run on both desktops and laptops, and dependent of the manufacturer, there could be 3-8 dropdowns.

Any help is appreciated, a link or point me to the function I need to use and I can take it from there. Thanks in advance.

I don't know a clever way but this should work.

set focus to the combo with control focus.

get the window text with WInGetText("Power Options Properties")

In that text will be the selected power option beginning with "Settings for ..."

Send({DOWN}")

Read the text again.

repeat until the text after "Settings for " no longer changes, then you have a count of the number of setting.

EDIT:Probably ControlGetText is more sensible than WInGetText.

Edited February 17, 2010 by martin

[lordicast]

I think your looking for...

_GUICtrlComboBox_GetCount($MyBox)

[omikron48]

I think you maybe wanna see at what "powercfg" can do for you. There is no need to navigate GUI controls.

Examples:
    POWERCFG /LIST
    POWERCFG /QUERY scheme
    POWERCFG /QUERY
    POWERCFG /CREATE scheme
    POWERCFG /DELETE scheme
    POWERCFG /SETACTIVE scheme
    POWERCFG /CHANGE scheme /monitor-timeout-dc 15
    POWERCFG /CHANGE scheme /monitor-timeout-dc 0
    POWERCFG /HIBERNATE on
    POWERCFG /EXPORT scheme /file file
    POWERCFG /QUERY number /NUMERICAL
    POWERCFG /GLOBALPOWERFLAG on /OPTION BATTERYICON
    POWERCFG /AVAILABLESLEEPSTATES
    POWERCFG /BATTERYALARM low
    POWERCFG /BATTERYALARM critical /ACTIVATE on /LEVEL 6 /ACTION hibernate
    POWERCFG /DEVICEQUERY wake_armed
    POWERCFG /DEVICEENABLEWAKE "Microsoft USB IntelliMouse Explorer"

Edited February 17, 2010 by omikron48

[Read]

How to set "do nothing"?

Start -> Control Panel -> Power Options -> Advanced --- Power Buttons "do nothing"

Code: Run("control.exe powercfg.cpl")

Code must choose Advanced, select "do nothing" and OK - close windows.

Sry my english

Edited September 19, 2010 by Read