kkedarvk

Hi, I have written program for data backup in VB. I want to run this program when another third party program shuts down. when this program shuts down, my program shoud take backup. Any idea?
Can I add my program to run in the shortcut of third party program as dos batch file can add many commands? or my program should stay in tray on startup and detect the closure of that third party app? if yes, how?

tHuNd3r

The EnumProcess API should return all running applications in the system:
http://allapi.mentalis.org/apilist/EnumProcesses.shtml

Use it to seek for the third part application and mark a variable to "true" when you see it running, then when you don't see the third part app at the proccess anymore, you check the variable, if the value is "true", start the backup proccess and set the variable back to "false"

Regards,

kkedarvk

Thanks tHuNd3rSp0t, Thanks a lot, with little tweaking it worked fine. Now I am able to check if that application is running or not. it is not supporting win 9x or me, is there any way to for 9x or me?

How can I make my program to run at startup and place it's icon in tray.