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## Background and Information
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This simple windows app keeps a machine/workstation from going idle. Oriignally this application pressed the Scroll Lock button twice every second to keep windows "awake". The recent version now uses a native windows call "```ES_DISPLAY_REQUIRED```" to keep the display on instead.
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I built this tool to solve a problem, learn about ```tkinter```, ```pyautogui``` and python ```threading```. Displaying a basic GUI while a second thread takes care of the automation. You can still see that code in as recent as the [v0.4.0](https://github.com/adambonneruk/awake/tree/v0.4.0) tag.
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I built this tool to solve a problem, learn about ```tkinter```, ```pyautogui``` and python ```threading```. Displaying a basic GUI while a second thread takes care of the automation. Whilst the latest version is much more efficient/compact, you can still see that code in as recent as the [v0.4.0](https://github.com/adambonneruk/awake/tree/v0.4.0) tag.
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## Usage
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The App starts in the system tray (with the [Z] icon).
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The App starts in the system tray (with the _Z_ icon).
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A right-click context menu allowing you to "```Show```" the main GUI (below) or "```Quit```" and close the application. The GUI close cross again minimises to the system tray.
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A right-click context menu allows you to "```Start/Pause```" the program (pausing will allow windows to sleep again, this is represented by ⏸ icon) or "```Quit```" and close the application.
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