Run programs on hibernate/suspend and resume!

**justintime** · 06-19-2005, 01:48 PM

Thanks evandude. Works for me, except for the issue you mentioend above. Please post new version when possible. I have not been able to find ANY util that does this except yours. And I looked for hours!

**evandude** · 06-19-2005, 08:44 PM

on friday he said he was about a half hour's work away from finishing a much better version. it includes minimizing to the system tray, fixing the little multiple standby glitch, and a more proper INI file which (I think) deals with spaces in filenames. may be other features, I don't know yet. so tomorrow I'll see if he's got anything more for everyone!

it really is amazing though... I am OK with C++, and I played with a little tutorial on windows API programming and from what he said, if I'd spent maybe a day or two finishing that tutorial, and did some quick browsing of the microsoft MSDN, I'd probably know enough to make this program myself. I was pretty surprised to realize that something like this (which previously seemed to be WAAAAY over my head, I assumed I'd need a couple more semesters of college computer science courses before I could even touch it) is really not that bad, if only I had a spare weekend to sit down and learn this stuff

so I'm hoping I can find time for that... someday... would be nice to be able to whip up a cool program like this one in just a couple of hours, instead of trying to find someone to do it for me... I think if some more people did that, we'd have all sorts of cool little apps like this one.

**evandude** · 06-20-2005, 08:46 AM

http://www.rpi.edu/~desimn/suspendtrigger/index.html

his own page, with some description of the program and the download link for the newest version. enjoy!

**Sonicxtacy02** · 06-20-2005, 09:14 AM

ok now here's my golden question. How do i use this thing to disable/enable my pharos usb GPS. Devcon.exe doesnt appear to work as windows says it requires a restart to disable the device.

**evandude** · 06-20-2005, 09:22 AM

someone else will have to help you with that one... in my case i'm planning to enable/disable the GPS through the GPS software itself, with some form of macro, since it can be done with a simple keystroke. otherwise, I have no idea, never tried it.

**justintime** · 06-20-2005, 04:57 PM

I think the problem is that you need to disable it before hibernation. Then, when waking up from hibernation you enable it.

This is what I am doing with Devcon with my Riaklaine 6010. Still testing the results though, not 100% this is going to work, but certainy closer!

Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

ok now here's my golden question. How do i use this thing to disable/enable my pharos usb GPS. Devcon.exe doesnt appear to work as windows says it requires a restart to disable the device.

**Sonicxtacy02** · 06-21-2005, 09:38 AM

well thats the problem. I dunno if its all usb gps or what .. but windows says it must be restarted in order to disable the device.

**evandude** · 07-28-2005, 09:29 PM

Hey, just an update for anyone interested, he has updated the software a bit

http://www.rpi.edu/~desimn/suspendtrigger/index.html

changelog:
1.5 - Minor Bug fixes, fixed bug limiting input of program path, added option to have program start minimized to the tray.

I just finally got my carPC running again, so I hope to be able to try out this software soon myself

On a sidenote, we're trying to figure out any possible way to stop a shutdown/hibernate/suspend, to get around the 20 second limit.

**Curiosity** · 07-28-2005, 09:50 PM

Return BROADCAST_QUERY_DENY on a PBT_APMQUERYSUSPEND message, then do the hibernate/suspend yourself when it's time. You may get into a race condition though, if you hibernate and then deny the message sent to your window.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...erysuspend.asp

**evandude** · 07-28-2005, 09:57 PM

Thanks for the info. I am not nearly as much of a programmer as either him or you, but I'll ask him about it.

I recall he said he found a way to send a message back to windows to abort the shutdown, however he said it just caused windows to send back another shutdown message to the program, but with a "force" flag set this time to forcibly kill it. Not sure if this is the same thing you suggested, or something different. As I said, I'm not a programmer