Posted: March 24 2003 at 10:33 | IP Logged

Tony,

Are you interested in time since the machine was last rebooted or time since PowerHome was last restarted?

If time since PowerHome was last restarted, I'll add a function that could return that.  In the meantime, you should be able to do it with a gv and using the STARTUP macro to store the time/date that PowerHome was started.

If you want the time since the machine was last booted, I'll have to do some research to see if there is a Windows API call or something that might be able to return that value. 

Dave.

Posted: March 24 2003 at 22:25 | IP Logged

Either of those should work, since I usually reboot Windows every 24 hours and PowerHome is in my Startup folder.

Good ole Win 98!

Here is something I found on the API call...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sysinfo/base/gettickcount.asp

Posted: March 25 2003 at 17:56 | IP Logged

Tony,

Thats exactly the same link I came across !!

Ive gone ahead and added a new PowerHome formula function which exposes the gettickcount API call.  The only problem is this function will wrap approximately every 50 days.

Ive also added a new function that will return the uptime of PowerHome itself.

HTH,

Dave.

Posted: March 25 2003 at 19:45 | IP Logged

Awesome, Dave! Thanks!

Oh, no! Only 50 days? For Win 95/98, 50 hours would be a miracle!

Tony