Because I like fun stuff and knowing that people at cisco use hacks like this, here you go, this should work...
(cut to snippets because of length) http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/6324 As mentioned before, the basic process is to create a disabled Scheduled Task. When you are ready to run it, you enable it, run it, then disable it again. You can supply the credentials. I tried to make everything a variable in the above post. Does not run under Windows XP (there wasn't a Task Scheduler COM interface in XP AFAIK). Steven James On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Matt Herbert (matherbe) <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:python-win32-bounces+matherbe <python-win32-bounces%2Bmatherbe>= > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Behalf Of Tim Roberts > > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 1:48 PM > > To: Python-Win32 List > > Subject: Re: [python-win32] Interacting with the desktop as a > > service onVista > > > > Matt Herbert (matherbe) wrote: > > > My situation is I have a python service which runs 24/7. > > Occasionally > > > The service needs to access windows on the desktop. That > > is, it needs > > > to enumerate all the windows, find a specific pop-up, and > > press a button. > > > > > > > Wow, this sounds like an incredible hack impersonating as a feature. > > For my own curiousity, is this for a test lab somewhere, or > > is this actually part of a product? > > > > -- > > Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > python-win32 mailing list > > python-win32@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 > > > > > Tim, > > This is strictly for a test lab. To be more specific it's for automated > testing of a product. The product has features that need to be tested > both when a user is logged in and when there is nobody logged into the > system. For the automation to be able to Test both of these situations, > it needs to run as a service. Hence, my dilemma. > > -Matt > _______________________________________________ > python-win32 mailing list > python-win32@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 >
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