[RESOLVED] Detect a process and timer

[Justa Lol]

what i want to do is like xfire when you open xfire and go on a game it detects the games process and counts.

i need my program to detect alefclient.exe and when its started, i need it to start a timer to count the time i've played on it, so the timer will count up on label1 and the label1 must have the format (days, hours, mins, sec).

what i need is it to detect alefclient.exe and when it is detected, start timer then view the time in the format days, hours, mins, secs on a label.

[Edgemeal]

Instead of depending on a timer to keep track of the run time it might be better to do it like this,

Get PID of the exe.
Get start time/date of PID.
In a timer call an elapsed time function to return the start time/date compared to current time/date.

At least thats how I've done it for a couple of my apps.....

[Justa Lol]

exactly how i want it...


can you give me an example code?

[Edgemeal]

can you give me an example code?

See if this helps,

[Justa Lol]

works but one problem....

[Justa Lol]

i found out another way but now i want my label to show the time it has run...

Day - hour:min:sec is the format i want to use. and i have no start date i just have a timer to make the label count 1 up every sec.

[Edgemeal]

works but one problem....

Not sure why unless it's a hidden exe, If you are using Shell to start the Exe might want to try using the returned value for the PID. PID=SHELL(....

i have no start date i just have a timer to make the label count 1 up every sec.

Just use the ElapsedTime module and manually set the start time,

'start/reset
StartDate = Now
Label1 = StartDate
Label2 = "00:00:00:00"
Timer1.Enabled = True' timer set to 1000ms

[Justa Lol]

i got everything working... but my process is messed up.