#2 Post wakeup to Windows Task Manager

[Paul Grunwald]

I don't run Jbidwatcher all the time. I would like a
feature that would post a wakeup to the Windows
Task Manager about 5 minutes before a snipe is due
to fire. I can set this manually but it would be nice to
have this automated. I have missed snipes because I
forgot to fire it up!

[Morgan Schweers]

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Greetings,
'Post a wakeup to the windows task manager?'

I'm afraid I really don't understand... How do you do this
manually, for example? Is this an XP, or 2000 feature?

-- Morgan Schweers

[Paul Grunwald]

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There is a windows task manager in most versions of
windows. This is used to schedule scan disk, defrag, etc.
Norton uses it to schedule LiveUpdate for new virus dat files.

In Unix this would be a cron job!

You can schedule items manually and there is a Microsoft API
for it.

P.

[Morgan Schweers]

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Greetings,

Okay, I know the program you're talking about. The 'Task
Scheduler' program. I was a bit confused, because the
Windows Task Manager is the thing that comes up if you hit
CTRL-ALT-DEL, and select Task Manager. The task scheduler
always gets turned off on my machines, so I hadn't thought
about it in a long time.

Anyhow, the basic problem with that is that it is a very OS
specific task. I *could* probably use 'at' for it, and
schedule tasks, and run at using the Runtime.exec() stuff,
but in a little testing, I haven't found that to be very
consistent. Worse yet, what should it do at those times...?
Just start JBidwatcher?

JBidwatcher now warns if it's being closed and has open
snipes, though. I guess I could add a button or something
to that close message that lets you schedule a 'relaunch'
before the next snipe. Interesting thought... It's
probably not a pre-1.0 feature though, unless someone else
wants to code it.

I'm really hesitant about platform-specific features, and
have managed to keep it down to just browser launching right
now, and that's really complex as it is, at least to get it
to work semi-okay on all the platforms.

-- Morgan Schweers

[Paul Grunwald]

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Sorry, yes I confused task scehduler with task manager!

"I guess I could add a button or something
to that close message that lets you schedule a 'relaunch'
before the next snipe. "

That is a perfect solution!

Thanks,
P.