Re: TIMEOUT Feature !!

On Tue, 1 Jul 1997 19:39:21 +0800, Lin Choong How <chlin@bass.com.my> wrote: >Hello, > > Have anyone developed an Informix 4GL application that has time out >features ? eg. during an input screen, if the screen is left idle for 15 >minutes, it will automatically exit from the program. > > If you have any idea how to do it, Pls e-mail to me. > > Thank You in advance. > >Regards, >Lin CH > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ >/\\ \\ >\\_| Lin Choong How E-Mail: Lin.Choong.How@bass.com.my | > | Application Consultant chlin@mol.net.my | > | Bass Consulting Sdn. Bhd. | > | 8th Floor, Menara SMI, Tel: 603-2305588 | > | 6 Lorong P. Ramlee, Fax: 603-2019403 | > | 50250 Kuala Lumpur, | > | Malaysia. | > | _____________________________________________________________________|__ > \\_/_______________________________________________________________________/ > Send a "kill -2" to your programm with shell, every 15 mn for exemple and you receive in your application the key interrupt. When you start the shell send the pid of your process PID=$1 while true kill -2 $PID || break; sleep "xxxx seconds" end while You can do this also with C programm an include this to your Informix prog, the way is to simulate interrupt key with a kill. Bye bob