Redirect Show Picture Start Program to a user session

[johnnyalexander]

EG 0.3.7.r851
WinXP Pro SP2

First I first want to thank the authors for a wonderful program.

I'm using the term service hack to allow concurrent sessions.

What I want to do is when a user logs into the second session to see a welcome screen (using show picture), load the main application in the background and then close the welcome screen, leaving the fully loaded program visible.

It works great on the console but the macro, which is looking for a session.connect event and correctly takes action, only opens the welcome screen and program on the console. Any way to direct these actions toward a user session?

Thanks!

[Bitmonster]

EG only runs in one session per computer. This is by design, as some hardware plugins simply won't work or crash the system if loaded more then once. I guess your problem is related to this and EG is actually already running in another session if you log in your user session. Showing/controlling visible objects from another session is not possible, so EG has to run in the session you want to control something. There is an undocumented and experimental command line switch "-multiload", that allows you to load EG more than once. You can try this if it helps, but keep in mind, that things can go badly wrong if EG is running more than once. For example injecting events with the "-e" switch might go to the wrong instance.

[TomXP411]

EG 0.3.7.r851
WinXP Pro SP2
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I'm using the term service hack to allow concurrent sessions.

I could use that... what's the trick?

[johnnyalexander]

EG only runs in one session per computer. This is by design, as some hardware plugins simply won't work or crash the system if loaded more then once. I guess your problem is related to this and EG is actually already running in another session if you log in your user session. Showing/controlling visible objects from another session is not possible, so EG has to run in the session you want to control something. There is an undocumented and experimental command line switch "-multiload", that allows you to load EG more than once. You can try this if it helps, but keep in mind, that things can go badly wrong if EG is running more than once. For example injecting events with the "-e" switch might go to the wrong instance.

Thanks for the information. Is the experimental command line switch available in the version I have and would you use it in loading both instances?

I could use that... what's the trick?

It was the beta XP SP2 termserv.dll that allowed up to 3 concurrent sessions. http://sig9.com/articles/concurrent-remote-desktop