Re: [DUG] TService and Windows Messaging

[Phil Middlemiss]

I agree about using TCP. We also use a component called TCiaService which allows us to still have a form that gets created but not shown if it's a service unless someone logs in (and then an icon appears in the system tray with a menu to do stuff like show the form). So you can still run the program as either a regular exe (you still get the icon) or automatically as a window service. Phil. Phil Scadden wrote: Has anyone worked out a simple way to communicate to a Windows Service using windows messaging. There appears to be a proprietary solution (Aldyn), but I don't want to go down that track at this stage. I generally communicate with shared memory block. For some applications I use TCPServer for communications. ---------------------------------------------------------- Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list Delphi@ns3.123.co.nz http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi

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