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Working in background

How can I make program that work in background? I want to make program that save the time when Windows is starting, write it on the screen, and after that, in evry moment, write curent time and distance between that two times?
How to do this?

Matvey

For your program to work in background you can make just a normal program that gets the time every second, makes the calculations you want etc. The only thing your program will need is to be unvisible in the taskbar and start when windows starts.

You can use this component to make it start when windows starts:
http://bes.trendline.co.il/torry/vcl/system/amarun.zip

And you can use these components to hide the button on taskbar:
http://bes.trendline.co.il/torry/vcl/system/appvisib.zip
http://bes.trendline.co.il/torry/vcl/system/thidetask.zip
http://bes.trendline.co.il/torry/vcl/system/notask.zip

BoRiS

mmilan

when you say write it on the screen you mean the desktop or a form you've created...

Later
BoRiS

Matvey

Ahh, forgot to mention. When your program starts, get the time by calling Then := Now. Then every second calculate Differ := Now-Then, and display it using TimeTostr(Differ)...

From Boris'es comment - maybe it's a good idea to use Screen.Canvas.TextOut(TimeToStr(Differ)) (??not sure it'll work, but a good idea)

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