Utility to change behavior of ATX power button (e.g.: launch an app)

**frodobaggins** · 08-17-2005, 07:34 PM

Originally Posted by justintime

Another alternative.

How about you find a way to differentiate between the 'normal' resumes from hibernate, and the ones you canceled via interceptor?

For example, before canceling the event with interceptor, write a 'True' to a variable.

After detecting a resume from hibernate, read the variable, if True then you do no launching, and set the variable to false. If it is false, then you launch the apps...

You realize you just described the same thing.

**frodobaggins** · 08-17-2005, 07:56 PM

Release

Here. Source Included.

**frodobaggins** · 08-17-2005, 08:10 PM

You can use/modify that to suit your needs, however I have a better idea
that I may work up later.

**justintime** · 08-17-2005, 08:37 PM

Our posts crossed paths in cyberspace LOL.
Yeah, it is basically the same thing.

Originally Posted by frodobaggins

You realize you just described the same thing.

**justintime** · 08-17-2005, 09:08 PM

Frodo,

First of all thanks so much for this!!!!

Ok, so I gave it a spin on my Capruter (bench setup for now), and it is definitely intercepting and cancelling the hibernate event.

However, it is not executing anything I set up in the fields. I even tried selecting your very own 1.bat script, and it is not writing to the text file as you'd expect. Tried several other apps, and nothing. I also tried with other events (shutdown for example) and no go.

I am running a Biostar with Athlon XP2400+, 512MB Ram, and Windows XP SP2.

Originally Posted by frodobaggins

Release

Here. Source Included.

**justintime** · 08-17-2005, 09:18 PM

NEVERMIND!

I just realized that you have to close and re-open the app so it loads the new configuration...

It works like a charm! Thanks you Frodo, this is awesome!

If you ever plan on adding the 'start upon resume' feature, it would make this so powerful... but it is great as-is. Wow. woohoo!

Originally Posted by justintime

Frodo,

First of all thanks so much for this!!!!

Ok, so I gave it a spin on my Capruter (bench setup for now), and it is definitely intercepting and cancelling the hibernate event.

However, it is not executing anything I set up in the fields. I even tried selecting your very own 1.bat script, and it is not writing to the text file as you'd expect. Tried several other apps, and nothing. I also tried with other events (shutdown for example) and no go.

I am running a Biostar with Athlon XP2400+, 512MB Ram, and Windows XP SP2.

**justintime** · 08-17-2005, 11:03 PM

Frodo,

Task Manager reports over 4 MB of RAM usage for the Interceptor. Does this sound right to you? Sounds like a lot to me.

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**frodobaggins** · 08-17-2005, 11:11 PM

Originally Posted by justintime

Frodo,

Task Manager reports over 4 MB of RAM usage for the Interceptor. Does this sound right to you? Sounds like a lot to me.

No, that's about right for a simple VB app with a form.

**frodobaggins** · 08-17-2005, 11:12 PM

I'm gonna work up something a little different in a few days, please test it out
for me when I do.

**justintime** · 08-18-2005, 04:08 PM

Frodo:

The RESUME box seems to be reflecting whatever you set in HIBERNATE box. The INI file captures the correct path, but the front-end seems to display the wrong variable for the Resume box. Incidentally (and most likely related), RESUME doesn't really seem to be doing anything. Is this the action to execute after coming back from a hibernate?