This might be more of an OS type of question than a DBISAM question, but I thought I'd ask.

Would it be possible to have a service running on a computer and "know" when the dbisam engine was initated (say by having an application start that has dbisamtb in the uses), or to tell if
it is already running.

Somehow attach to that engine instance, and trap its trigger events (AfterInsert, AfterUpdate, etc)?

The situation is that you don't want to mess with the existing application, but you'd like to audit some table changes.

Thanks

Thad,

<< This might be more of an OS type of question than a DBISAM question, but
I thought I'd ask.

Would it be possible to have a service running on a computer and "know"
when the dbisam engine was initated (say by having an application start that
has dbisamtb in the uses), or to tell if it is already running.

Somehow attach to that engine instance, and trap its trigger events
(AfterInsert, AfterUpdate, etc)?

The situation is that you don't want to mess with the existing application,
but you'd like to audit some table changes. >>

You could monitor certain directories/files via the monitoring facilities in
Windows.  However, they're not particularly granular in terms of the
notification times and will only tell you if someone modified the files (I
believe).

You can find out more here:

http://delphi.about.com/od/kbwinshell/l/aa030403a.htm

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com