Cyber Cafe Application Help

[Mr.Rajan]

Hi all,

I want to create an application for cyber cafe which i thought should be as follows :-


1. My app starts with windows and is hidden in the system tray.

2. When IE starts my app gives a popup that your time has started at "WHATEVER THE TIME AT THE MOMENT WOULD BE"

3. When user closes its time is calculated in a Msgbox.

---- The problem is how to check if the users opens another IE window while working and add the bill to the same user.

---- To reset the timer when ie is closed by first user and second user starts operating

----- How to start the app with windows and that too in system tray


---- Some idea of how to develop this application would be highly appreciable.


Thanks in advance

Regards,
Rajan Arora..

 

[Tom]

You cetainly can have something running in the backgroud checking for IE but that is inefficient to have something taking up these resources. Wouldnt it be better to just keep track of when they log onto the computer instead of having something running in the background?

 

[Mr.Rajan]

Sir, thats what the problem i am facing na. that how to keep track of new user has logged in and how to know that the old user has logged out because he may also open another ie window ...

Plz help

 

[Tom]

I was thinking not so much of being logged into IE but logging into windows in general. Its easy enough to pull a time the user logged in and then you dont even have to worry about how many IE windows he opens or not.