Reality Checker Program

This is a little program that I made for those of us who sit at the computer all day, and don't do our reality checks like good little kids. There are other, simmilar programs out there that do the same thing (pop a message on the screen, asking you to check reality) but mine is superior in that it can handle *GASP* IMAGES!!! I have inluded a few images for you to question reality with, but you can easily add your own images.

Features include:
optional image display
text display
autorun on start for all users or just you
invisibility (as well as being able to start up invisible)
and custom time settings (believe it or not, i have seen programs that dont allow you to do this)

VB6.0 runtime files are needed to run this baby. you can download them here: VB6 Runtime files DOWNLOAD THIS ONLY IF THE PROGRAM DOESNT WORK!

This program is a beta, I dont take responsibility for anything bad that happens to your computer, email me with problems you have, and i should be able to fix them.

For more in-depth instructioning, view the "readthis" file... because nobody every "readsme" :content:

download: RChecker v1.0

Good job. :thumbup:
The images are excellent! lol DVD Rewinder! :rolllaugh: lol

I've got one tip: Internet Explorer control consumes a lot of memory. Try not to use it.

Thanks, I am going to give this a shot. Darn VB programers keep taking business away from the C++ people... :wink: This is going to be interesting with the remnats of gear oil in my fingers, it stinks to high heavens.

Lol, Likenight. You are right, but nowadays memory is cheap, and using IE is the only way to get a one-liner peice of code that displays a GIF in VB :wink:

You may want to put a DoEvents in your code. The Event handling seems very slow, which is apparent when moving the form around. Are you trying to hook the video drivers or use DirectX? Maybe the mouse intercept is not optimized.

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Lol, Likenight. You are right, but nowadays memory is cheap, and using IE is the only way to get a one-liner peice of code that displays a GIF in VB :wink:
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Checked over the code. I have no "doevents" in there, mostly because I'm not doing any intensive stuff whatsoever. You are probably having trouble because of IE running to display that GIF (*I have no idea how Likenight found that out*) I'm not using Directx, or playing with video drivers.

I did find a feature I would like to implement though. Next time I get to fiddling around with this program, i'll make an option to remove the pic, and I'll try to find a way to find out if Directx/openGL is in use, (such as when you are playing games and watching some videos) and see if I can have the option to disable RCs when you are doing that; because it can get annoying...

More importantly, is the program working fine for everyone? I know the registry is a bit different in win2k than in XP, so there might be some automatic startup problems in 2k. But I dont have a 2k machine to test this thing out on.

You can use enumeration to see what kinds of programs are running. Look for a program called EnumerationX. There is source code for that, and it gives an idea of how to find ID's of windows that are open and such.

I didn't see IE running, but it's probably in the background. I didn't really get to press start since it was like that from the beginning.

I'm not sure how the timer is working, but maybe specifying events instead of doing a time in a loop would be better. I think there are timer controls, but I haven't really used them before.

Would it be easier to work with JPG files?

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Checked over the code. I have no "doevents" in there, mostly because I'm not doing any intensive stuff whatsoever. You are probably having trouble because of IE running to display that GIF (*I have no idea how Likenight found that out*) I'm not using Directx, or playing with video drivers.

I did find a feature I would like to implement though. Next time I get to fiddling around with this program, i'll make an option to remove the pic, and I'll try to find a way to find out if Directx/openGL is in use, (such as when you are playing games and watching some videos) and see if I can have the option to disable RCs when you are doing that; because it can get annoying...

More importantly, is the program working fine for everyone? I know the registry is a bit different in win2k than in XP, so there might be some automatic startup problems in 2k. But I dont have a 2k machine to test this thing out on.
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