how to create a "run count" editor???

[nmobp]

Hello everybody!

My very first post in this forum. I am looking for an application to install on my PPC that will provide me with information on how many times a specific -other- program in my PPC is run. This could be described as a "run count software" type of thing. Any ideas if such a program exists? Could this application be created easily with Basic4ppc?

Thanks for any advice!

Nicholas

 

[Zenerdiode]

Unless the applications have counters coded in to them, its not going to be that easy.

You may want to have a look at dzt's useful library. There is a method called GetProcesses that you may be able to call repeatedly and increment a counter when your chosen software runs. To do this, I suggest your Basic4PPC program runs as soon as the device is switched on (place a shortcut to it in the 'startup' folder) and have the program running minimised in the background.

 

[mjcoon]

... You may want to have a look at dzt's useful library. ...

But Nicholas (nmobp) is showing up as a visitor not a registered user so won't be able to download libraries... (Unless, like some, he is using an alias.)

There is also an ambiguity. If "the number of times a program is run" means the number of times that it is started up, the sampling process that Zenerdiode suggests will only yield a useful result if there is a sample that shows the program is not[/U running in between it being present. This would imply it has been stopped and restarted.

Mike.