Re: Run a program after a laptop has been on battery power for x minutes?

["Pete Shew" <pete@xxxxxxx>]

In Windows, you can check the powers status in Win32 using
GetSystemPowerStatus. This could be polled or in response to a
WM_POWERBROADCAST message with wParam set to PBT_APMPOWERSTATUSCHANGE.

I don't know of any product that does this and schedules a task after a
period on battery.

Pete

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On 09/02/2004 at 23:40 alanmiddleton74 wrote:

>Has anyone seen a program that launch another program(s) if a laptop
>has been on battery power for x minutes? x is going to be a small
>period of time like 20 minutes.
>
>I'm trying to use the battery like a ups, so it will normally run on
>mains, if the power fails the laptop will run off of battery for x
>minutes, then run some programs and then go into a controlled
>shutdown assuming the power hasn't resumed since then.
>
>I know I can run a program if the battery fall below x% within the
>windows power options but I was after a timed event (perfectionist
>that I am). I also wanted to only run the program some of the time as
>opposed to all of the time / having to import and export registry
>settings to change it automatically.
>
>I need to solve this problem for both windows and linux, so idea on
>either/both platforms would be great.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Alan.
>
>
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