Hi everybody!
I would be very interested if anybody could share his or her experience with running BlackBox
(or a BlackBox based application) as a Windows "service".
What is needed for that purpose, I mean
any third party tools or can it run out-of-the-box?
Thanks in advance for any comments
- Josef
BlackBox as a Windows service?
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Re: BlackBox as a Windows service?
Josef,Josef Templ wrote:Hi everybody!
I would be very interested if anybody could share his or her experience with running BlackBox
(or a BlackBox based application) as a Windows "service".
What is needed for that purpose, I mean
any third party tools or can it run out-of-the-box?
Thanks in advance for any comments
- Josef
Perhaps you could expound a bit on what you mean by "service"?
Does an application (.exe) running on Windows count as a "service"?
-Doug
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Re: BlackBox as a Windows service?
I am currently working on a project requested by a neighbor that schedules
files backups. It will be called Backup.exe. That "service?" generates 3 other
files which hold
(1) the tasks to be run as created by the user
(2) preferences of what to include in a log file
(3) the log file
Is that a service?
files backups. It will be called Backup.exe. That "service?" generates 3 other
files which hold
(1) the tasks to be run as created by the user
(2) preferences of what to include in a log file
(3) the log file
Is that a service?
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Re: BlackBox as a Windows service?
A Windows "service" is a special kind of .exe that follows the Windows "service" conventions.
It can be started automatically when Windows is booted, if set up accordingly.
In particular, it does not need a user to be logged in and usually it does not
provide a GUI but writes everything to a log file or the Windows event log.
- Josef
It can be started automatically when Windows is booted, if set up accordingly.
In particular, it does not need a user to be logged in and usually it does not
provide a GUI but writes everything to a log file or the Windows event log.
- Josef
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Re: BlackBox as a Windows service?
OK, thanks.Josef Templ wrote:A Windows "service" is a special kind of .exe that follows the Windows "service" conventions.
It can be started automatically when Windows is booted, if set up accordingly.
In particular, it does not need a user to be logged in and usually it does not
provide a GUI but writes everything to a log file or the Windows event log.
- Josef
Re: BlackBox as a Windows service?
Hi Josef,
Almost 4 year late
, but I have experience running blackbox as a Windows Service using nssm.exe (The "non-sucking service manager"). Works great. Only disadvantage is that you cannot have any interaction via Dialogs or so,..
Kind regards,
Mathieu.
Almost 4 year late
![Geek :geek:](./images/smilies/icon_e_geek.gif)
Kind regards,
Mathieu.