patrickkidd Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 There are quite a few threads out there that *almost* address this problem, but none seem to work for what I am trying to do. I have a UPS that will send a shutdown event to the PC's power button on the case and I need to safely shutdown and save the work on a sensitive application before the machine actually powers down. So I want to prevent Windows 7 from shutting down when the physical power button is pressed, and instead run some script code. I then intend to then force-shutdown the machine from that code. The problem with simply handling WM_QUERYENDSESSION and _WinAPI_ShutdownBlockReasonCreate don't work because the AutoIT GUI window in which they are created is automatically closed (I think) before it can respond to WM_QUERYENDSESSION and cancel it. Thoughts? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrewManNH Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 Your UPS isn't physically pressing the power button on your computer is it? If it's not then why do you want to monitor whether it's pressed or not? UPSs will send a shutdown command to the OS if there is software running on the computer that monitors for it. Otherwise, they'll stay on as long as possible and then simply shut off when the batteries die. If I posted any code, assume that code was written using the latest release version unless stated otherwise. Also, if it doesn't work on XP I can't help with that because I don't have access to XP, and I'm not going to.Give a programmer the correct code and he can do his work for a day. Teach a programmer to debug and he can do his work for a lifetime - by Chirag GudeHow to ask questions the smart way! I hereby grant any person the right to use any code I post, that I am the original author of, on the autoitscript.com forums, unless I've specifically stated otherwise in the code or the thread post. If you do use my code all I ask, as a courtesy, is to make note of where you got it from. Back up and restore Windows user files _Array.au3 - Modified array functions that include support for 2D arrays. - ColorChooser - An add-on for SciTE that pops up a color dialog so you can select and paste a color code into a script. - Customizable Splashscreen GUI w/Progress Bar - Create a custom "splash screen" GUI with a progress bar and custom label. - _FileGetProperty - Retrieve the properties of a file - SciTE Toolbar - A toolbar demo for use with the SciTE editor - GUIRegisterMsg demo - Demo script to show how to use the Windows messages to interact with controls and your GUI. - Latin Square password generator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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