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time for someone to learn the Win32 API....

no but seriously that's a good idea. i need that for myself.
i guess i'll be googling on your behalf for such a product.

I've written a "pop-up" blocker that maintained a list of title-bar texts and monitored the taskbar. If one of em showed up, BAM!

So that's possible at least. Control-alt-delete to find out the identity Starfraft uses and if a window exists with that title for more than X minutes, post a close message to it. Easy to write in C# if you're familiar with P/Invoke.

Starcraft may not handle close messages like you want it to though. That's the only problem I can see. I don't know how to "force" a program to exit nicely.

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Original post by fisheyel83l I've written a "pop-up" blocker that maintained a list of title-bar texts and monitored the taskbar. If one of em showed up, BAM! So that's possible at least. Control-alt-delete to find out the identity Starfraft uses and if a window exists with that title for more than X minutes, post a close message to it. Easy to write in C# if you're familiar with P/Invoke. Starcraft may not handle close messages like you want it to though. That's the only problem I can see. I don't know how to "force" a program to exit nicely.

Perhaps he could write a program that will run Starcraft and keep track of how long it goes...

A bit off topic, but Win32 can do quite a bit :)

Last year, I wrote a program in C that ran in the background and whenever I hit "ctrl+alt+shit", all the Internet Explorer windows dissapeared (from the screen AND from the taskbar), then if you hit it again, they all re-appeared.

I used this at school so I could browse the web when we're suppose to be working, then when someone comes, I hide all the IE windowsa nd Im left with a word document open or something :)

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Original post by Xtremehobo A bit off topic, but Win32 can do quite a bit :) Last year, I wrote a program in C that ran in the background and whenever I hit "ctrl+alt+shit", all the Internet Explorer windows dissapeared (from the screen AND from the taskbar), then if you hit it again, they all re-appeared. I used this at school so I could browse the web when we're suppose to be working, then when someone comes, I hide all the IE windowsa nd Im left with a word document open or something :)

You are cool.

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Original post by Xtremehobo whenever I hit "ctrl+alt+shit"...

The shit key? Would that be the Windows key?

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Original post by andy-pandy Quote: Original post by Xtremehobo whenever I hit "ctrl+alt+shit"... The shit key? Would that be the Windows key?

Roofles. he built his own keyboard I guess [wink]

But seriously, you could write such a program with just a few win32 API calls.