- Services and windows messaging
- Posted by Peter McCarthy on October 29th, 2003
Services and windows messaging
Folks,
I have a process that uses Windows messaging for IPC. This worked fine,
however I have now converted my process to a service (using Microsoft
Windows NT Resource Kit). Now all the calls to PostMessage or SendMessage no
longer seem to work. The process uses network sockets as well. Any ideas ???
Regards
- Posted by Scott McPhillips [MVP] on October 29th, 2003
Peter McCarthy wrote:
In the control panel services settings, try turning on 'Allow service to
interact with desktop.' When this is off any windows created by the
service are in a different desktop 'address space'. If this solves your
problem, you can probably set the same setting by calling Service
Control Manager functions during application installation.
--
Scott McPhillips [VC++ MVP]
- Posted by Sten Westerback on October 30th, 2003
"Peter McCarthy" <petergmccarthy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:zMNnb.2975$bD.13780@news.indigo.ie...
There is no legitime reason to do send and receive ANY messages in a
service... that is if it's a real service. The mention of Reskit makes me
think that you are using SvcAny which is just a wrapper. If so then you
can possibly get it to work by allowing interaction with the current desktop
(as stated in the other response). But that won't work when there isn't
any interactively logged on user.
What you should do instead is use some more reasonable IPC such as
(named) pipes or mailslots... or sockets.
make the service without utilizing reskit's poor-mans-helpers.
- Sten
