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Remy Lebeau (TeamB) schreef:
> "Wiljo" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:46ec1d00@newsgroups.borland.com...
> 
>> That is what waitable timers are all about.
> 
> That is not what waitable timers are all about.  The feature you are trying
> to use is just a small piece of what they are primarily meant for - an event
> object that can be waited on via the various Msg/WaitFor...() functions,
> that is automatically signalled at a specific time by the OS instead of the
> application.  Waking up the machine from Standby is a secondary effect.  The
> wakeup feature is barely mentioned in the several pages of documentation
> Microsoft has on what waitable timers are and how to use them.
> 
Sorry I wrote that waitable timers are all about waking up one's 
computer. It clearly does a lot more, and waking up is just a side 
effect. Is there maybe another procedure to wake up the computer at a 
cerain time? I don't want to set up a wait procedure that uses a 
WaitForSingleObject or something, because it is more difficult to change 
the wakeup time later. There should be a simpler way of setting up a 
timer, that wakes the computer, if it went to sleep, at a certain time.
>> It just doesn't work in my case.
> 
> I tested the exact code you provided earlier, and it works as-is for me on
> my XP laptop without any problem.  When entering Standby mode, the display
> and all of the lights turn off.  Exactly 1 minute later, all of the lights
> turn back on (but not the display, as per MSDN's documentation) and the
> program's UI has been updated with the correct timestamp.  So I'm guessing
> that the problem is with your machine/OS, not your code.
> 
I am glad to read that my piece of code does work on your machine, but I 
am not sure if this problem is machine/OS related. I have another 
commercial PVR running, that does wake my computer at the correct time 
to record a show. That program "ShowShifter" is not stable enough for my 
liking, and the filename convention is not ideal. So now I am using 
ATV2000 and writing my own scheduler. This scheduler is already working 
fine with ATV2000, but does not yet take care of sleeping and waking up. 
And I would like to do that as well. Leaving my computer on the whole 
day is not very environmently friendly.
> 
> Gambit
> 
> 
Wiljo.