Hibernate an Application

[Ryan]

Hello Everyone,

We are writing a medical application that due to regulations needs to log
itself out after a certain amount of inactivity. Using timers we can
determine inactivity, however we want to be able to save the application's
state or hibernate it. Any ideas?

Thanks.

[Jim Hubbard]

Why not simply have the application hide the current screen when a timeout
has been reached and show a login screen instead?

No nasty little state files or any of the associated code (which can be
quite substantial).

Jim Hubbard

"Ryan" <Ry**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hello Everyone,

We are writing a medical application that due to regulations needs to log
itself out after a certain amount of inactivity. Using timers we can
determine inactivity, however we want to be able to save the application's
state or hibernate it. Any ideas?

Thanks.

[Ryan]

Jim,

Thanks for the suggestion, that is the current way I think we have to do
it. Is there any good examples of using state files to save the application?

Thanks.

"Jim Hubbard" wrote:

Why not simply have the application hide the current screen when a timeout
has been reached and show a login screen instead?

No nasty little state files or any of the associated code (which can be
quite substantial).

Jim Hubbard

"Ryan" <Ry**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D6**********************************@microsof t.com...

Hello Everyone,

We are writing a medical application that due to regulations needs to log
itself out after a certain amount of inactivity. Using timers we can
determine inactivity, however we want to be able to save the application's
state or hibernate it. Any ideas?

Thanks.