Services shouldn't have any UI or display messages. You use a separate desktop app or web page to get info in and out, and talk to the service through sockets or whatever. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
On Mon, 10 Aug 2015, at 07:34 PM, Tracy Pearson wrote: > Alan Bourke wrote on 2015-08-10: > > A Windows service is what they're called these days. You can't create > > one natively in VFP, but you can create a normal VFP exe and then use a > > third-party util called 'runasservice' to install it as a service.Sort > > of kludgy,but should work. Alternatively you can run a normal exe on a > > schedule using the server scheduler. > > Alan, > > Didn't the UAC (introduced in Vista) break being able to display > information > from a Service? One needs to disable UAC for a service to interact with > the > currently logged in user desktop to display a message. > > Tracy Pearson > PowerChurch Software > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
