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Thread Server Event for "remote control"
Fri, Feb 3 2006 2:17 PMPermanent Link

"Johnnie Norsworthy"
When I install the server at a customer site, I will also be installing a
couple of supporting programs on the server machine. Instead of telling my
customers to start these programs as needed it would be great if I could
send a command to the server and act upon it, which in this case would be
just executing those programs.

Has anyone else done anything similar to this?

-Johnnie

Fri, Feb 3 2006 5:07 PMPermanent Link

Tim Young [Elevate Software]

Elevate Software, Inc.

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Johnnie,

<< When I install the server at a customer site, I will also be installing a
couple of supporting programs on the server machine. Instead of telling my
customers to start these programs as needed it would be great if I could
send a command to the server and act upon it, which in this case would be
just executing those programs. >>

Just define a server-side procedure that simply calls the CreateProcess
Windows API call and loads the programs.  You can find out more information
on using CreateProcess from within Delphi by Googling "Delphi
CreateProcess".  Then just call the server-side procedure whenever necessary
to load them.

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

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