Re: Display Overlord Question (was: Kiosk application issues)

[Christian Miller <realbasic at nc dot rr dot com>]

On Aug 11, 2004, at 6:53 PM, Tom Benson wrote:

> What I do for my POS terminals is have a small script in my startup 
> items that is running constantly which checks for running instances of 
> my POS terminal program. If it doesn't find any, it launches a new 
> one.
> Maximum of one second downtime if my terminal app quits or is fore 
> quit by the user. Shutdown handles this well too, because it just 
> kills the script, then the terminal program.
My application uses cron to check itself, so there would be at the 
most, one minute in between the time the user exists and the time cron 
launches my "does it need to run" application.  Hopefully this will be 
acceptable enough for my client.
Thanks,
Christian
pariahware at pariahware dot com
Pariahware, Inc. Custom Software and Shareware
http://www.pariahware.com
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