Is this possible?

[Geeky1]

Does a program exist that will let me have F@H start automatically when my laptop is on AC power, but which will close it when it switches to battery power?

[a2jfreak]

Possible? Yes.
Does it yet exist? Probably in a program-agnostic form, not F@H-specific.

[mmonnin]

Try a scheduled task.

[shwaip]

It doesn't work on my laptop...I just stop it when i run on batteries

[edcentric]

I can't get it to work on my Toshiba, I tried building a profile that would suspend FAH when I went to battery. I guess I need to rtfm and try again.

[Gobbles]

get some one to write one up in VB real quick. I should not be that hard. You are onl y checking to see if battery is in use, if it is dont start if not start.

if (battery!=1) { run folding@home }
else { return }

Gobbles

[shwaip]

The real advantage of making it a sched. task would be it stops if you unplug the laptop, which it does not.

[a2jfreak]

VB sucks. It uses "if/then/endIf" not if/{/} :)
Also, inequality checks are <> IIRC, not !=.

I prefer !=, (since NOT EQUAL makes more sense to me than LESS THAN GREATER THAN) :)

get some one to write one up in VB real quick. I should not be that hard. You are onl y checking to see if battery is in use, if it is dont start if not start.

if (battery!=1) { run folding@home }
else { return }

Gobbles

[t1rhino]

Are you running the Graphical or console or console as a service?

[Geeky1]

Right now, it's the GUI version.

[primesuspect]

The guy who wrote this program would be a hero to the mobile folding community....

[t1rhino]

It is easy to do if you are running the console version by simply sending a Ctrl-C to the console window. If you kill the GUI version using a kill process command, it does not kill the core...
As well, the GUI version is that it interprets Alt-F4 as minimize instead of close. If you can determine what (if any) keyboard commands will close the GUI version, then let me know.