Custom shell - shortcut?

[frednorge]

Greetings,

Im about to create a custom shell including Mediaportal. My question is:
Is it possible to run the Mediaportal setup from FBA and then just have a
custom shell to start the Mediaportal - or do i have to create a complete
component of Mediaportal with all files, registry settings etc.?

Thanks for any help.

 

[Sean Liming \(MVP\)]

You can have a shell launch an application. This can be a good thing since
you can include a signal to the kernel the shell is launch, which gets
around a long timeout.

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit

 

[DPM]

Sean,

Care to describe the signal?

Thanks,
Dean

 

[frednorge]

Thanks Sean,

i have done this sucessfully (i went ahead and tried it), but im also
curious about what you mean by "signal to the kernel"

Regards

 

[Sean Liming \(MVP\)]

Hopefully the code will be posted correctly. Basically it is the
ShellReadyEvent


if( !SetShellReadyEvent("msgina: ShellReadyEvent") )
SetShellReadyEvent("Global\\msgina: ShellReadyEvent");

bool SetShellReadyEvent(const char *eventName)
{
HANDLE hEvent = OpenEvent(EVENT_MODIFY_STATE, FALSE, eventName);

if( !hEvent )
return false;

SetEvent(hEvent);
CloseHandle(hEvent);
return true;
}


--
Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit

 

[frednorge]

Dear Sean,

That was a bit over my head . I have googled "ShellReadyEvent", but could
you be so kind to point me in the right direction? Where exactly do i
find/put this code?

Im using minlogon in my runtime.

 

[Sean Liming \(MVP\)]

Place it at the launch (beginning) of the application.

--
Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit

 

[xzaz]

Is there a way to do this in C#?