Mark,
check out http://www.activeplus.com/
They have cheap/free software here that turns any program into a service.
We're using it here. With the exception of getting it to automatically
restart (which works according to one of my co-workers) it works fine, even
with a standard Delphi 5 app WITH a form interface. It's good stuff, and
comes with a free service manager which is reportedly better that the
standard Microsoft offering.
Cheers,
Simon.
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Derricutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 14 April, 2000 5:01 PM
Subject: [DUG]: NT Services
Hiho all, I'm wanting to create an NT service and am created a new project
using the Service entry from file->new but not quite sure what it is I'm
supposed to do next :)
What exactly is a TService object (looks like a datamodule) and how should
I be writing this properly :)
I understand what I should be doing in OnStop/OnStart/OnShutdown etc., but
what exactly would I do doing in the OnExecute event? The help for this
event says "this is where I implement the service", but I'm sort of
confused as to what exactly I would be doing in this event, when it's
called, how often its called etc. etc.
My logic says I'd put a TTimer on the TService do my processing in there
but that again leaves me confused about the OnExecute event. One possible
thought is that OnExecute gets called when the user double clicks on the
service name in the control panel services applet, is this so?
Also, how would I set up sending messages and info back and forth to the
services, i.e. Program A on \\WORKSTATION queries Service B on \\SERVER
and Service B sends text back to Program A? Is that possible? Easy?
Mark
The NTService Clueness Newbie :)
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