Auto Start an application

hello,
if the string contains spaces, enter it as following (within quotation marks):

Try to set it like that:

and make depend to:

and then

DKuhne.-

Try to set depend to 63,00 (wait until ndcucfg.exe is ready). At this point the storage card should also be ready.

What happens when you start your app (with settings above) from \FFSDISK ?
(Only for test purposes).

Does your app start?

DKuhne.

Hello Peter,
is the serial debug output enabled? Maybe "ndcucfg" is not started!
Does it work when you set dependencies to explorer .exe (0x32)?

Hello Peter,
for windows ce you should refer the msdn library. Special settings for F&S drivers are listed in our "Device Driver" documents which you will find on our web.

Hi there, i need something similar but after many try i can't get a solution.

I'm trying to start my application from Storage Card but i don't wanna start "explorer.exe" too. If i use:

as registry settings all works good but how you can see "explorer.exe" starts too. If i try to remove it from this registry key (removing "Launch50" and "Depend50" value) and remove the "32,00" dependency from "Launch200" value my application doesn't start anymore.
It works good even if i put my application into "FFSDISK" folder and start from there with "Launch200"=string:\FFSDISK\dcu8_MLS_090707.exe even when "Launch50" and "Depend50" are removed.
It works good even if i put a little startup application in "FFSDISK" folder that starts my application located in "Storage Card\M6V2".

How can i solve it?

How about adding a dependency for services.exe? The problem is that the storage card needs some time to be detected, while FFSDISK is available immediately. Therefore device.exe tries to start your program, does not find it (as the storage card is not yet active) and then skips this program. By giving the dependency to services.exe I hope that this delays enough. But I have my doubts that this will work reliably.

If this does not work either, you have to put some starting code in FFSDISK that waits until the storage card is detected and then starts your application.

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How about adding a dependency for services.exe? The problem is that the storage card needs some time to be detected, while FFSDISK is available immediately. Therefore device.exe tries to start your program, does not find it (as the storage card is not yet active) and then skips this program. By giving the dependency to services.exe I hope that this delays enough. But I have my doubts that this will work reliably.

If this does not work either, you have to put some starting code in FFSDISK that waits until the storage card is detected and then starts your application.

I try what you prompt but didn't work. With dependencies set to 3c,00 doesn't start, if i set it to 3c,00,32,00 it works. Seems to need explorer.exe to recognize Storage Card correctly.

I just try to put a startup code into FFSDISK and work correctly even if i didn't wait for anything, just make a little program with starting thread code and lunch my application from there, nothing more.

But it's a problem for production line to put an application into FFSDISK, i need to set the registry, put into an SDCARD with right software and turn on the device

We have an Update software that can do exactly this: insert the update device (e.g. an SD card or a USB stick) and restart the board. The update software then copies data to the board and when it's done, you have your software in the FFSDISK directory. This can also be done to update software in the field. The update process is optimized to be rather reliable. For example it can make backups of the originally installed files and if the update process fails somehow, it restores all the backups to get back to the old version. This means you always have a working device. Either with the new software or in case of failure with the old software. Or if the update procedure is interrupted (e.g. a power failure), it is continued the next time when the device is switched on.

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I just got the tool to update user software, so I'm trying to get it working with a simple text file, updated from a usb stick.
This is the content of the file Update.script:

# Test-Update

# Open log file on USB-Stick
L UpdateTest.log

# Set Pause
P 2000

# Install new test file
I TestFileNew.txt \FFSDISK\TestFile.txt

If I plug the stick in, my PicoCOM2 recognizes it successfully and brings up the reboot dialog. Doing so, the update starts, but the textfile is not installed. The Script is executed, as I can "see" the pause of 2 seconds and the log file is created. This is the content of the generated log file:

# Log file created by NetDCU Update V1.2

So what could be the cause, that the file is not installed?

Thanks in advance for your suppert.

Thomas

Well - luckily I managed to find out, why it did not work.
The install command is the last line in the file and there was no carriage return.
So if I simply press the enter kay and there is a carriage return, it works correctly.

Maybe this could be something to be added in the manual of the update tool.

Thomas

Usually the problem is rather simple: you have no Linefeed after the last line. Therefore the last line is not executed.