[Reply] Jeremy,
The requirement is essentially to know when the resources of the computer are available enough to use ... so just decide what level the "system idle" resource should be ( make it configurable perhaps ), put some hysteresis in there ( maybe 3 seconds ) and you're away. Just keep it simple. cheers Gary At 18:09 on 14/09/2009 you wrote >To : delphi@delphi.org.nz >CC : >From: Jeremy Coulter, jscoul...@gmail.com >Content Type: text/html >Attached: > >This is a multipart message in MIME format. > > > > >I agree. My business partner was approached by someone about writing an >app. To basically tell the user that the computer is ready to use. > >My gut feeling is this is not the type of app. Thats going to be very >reliable..... > > > >Jeremy > > > >From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On >Behalf Of Jolyon Smith >Sent: Monday, 14 September 2009 17:48 >To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List' >Subject: Re: [DUG] Has Windows finished?? > > > >I'm not sure that any API - even if it exists - can actually be at all >reliable so I doubt that it even exists. > > > >If it *did exist all it could possibly tell you is that Windows has loaded >and initialised all the processes that it thinks it needs to. But Windows >itself does not and cannot know what those processes are going to do once >launched, so it has no way of knowing if/when those processes themselves are >"finished". > > > >Some won't *ever* finish. Some of those processes are launched and then >simply sit "resident" (showing my age I think) doing some work periodically, >such as the various "Update service" processes that numerous applications >install these days. > > > >What constitutes "finished", in your terms, in these cases? The executable >image has finished loading from disc? The process associated has *started*? >The process associated has *finished*? If the latter, does that mean >terminated and unloaded or simply "gone idle" (what you consider "idle" >being potentially wholly different from what "idle" means to any one of >those processes). > > > >It might be better to ask why you want to do this? What is it you are >trying to achieve in your process? What is it, specifically, you are >waiting for and why? > > > >This might help identify an approach to suit your needs. > > > > > >From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On >Behalf Of Jeremy Coulter >Sent: Monday, 14 September 2009 14:07 >To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List >Subject: [DUG] Has Windows finished?? > > > >Hi all. >Is there API or SOMETHING that I can call or look at that will tell me if >windows has finished "Loading". i.e. all the programs that windows has to >load have finshed loading etc. etc. >I guess I can look at the CPU usage, but not sure how good thisis. What if >one of the programs being loaded is a CPU hog because the machine is a bit >of a dog etc. > >Anyone got any ideas? > > >Jeremy > > > >_______________________________________________ >NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list >Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz >Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi >Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: >unsubscribe Ref#: 41006
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