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05.09.2011 10:45:11

Re: Creating a keystroke to put the monitor only to sleep.

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Since Apple doesn't provide any public API for putting monitors to sleep or offers any way to configure the keyboard shortcut for this functionality, either, I'm afraid I can't help you in this case. Sorry.

Well, the authors of SleepDisplay and DisplaySleepr apps managed to do that somehow. So it's doable.

Sure, it's doable - but not through emulated keystrokes / _public_ APIs. It's only doable through _private_ APIs. Which - in this particular case - if called under older OS X releases (10.4 in particular), leads to a kernel panic. This alerted me. There's no guarantee why the same couldn't happen under new OS releases. There's just no way to know - nobody can look into the future.

The risk of crashing may be acceptable for freeware, but it's not acceptable for a commercial product like Remote Buddy, which is built on public, documented APIs for maximized stability.

It's not that I haven't looked into it.

Best regards,
Felix Schwarz

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