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cruelty has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Hi,
I've just written a small tool that polls for new e-mail
on a POP3 mail server. When new mail is found it sends out
an SMS to my cellphone.
I would like to enhance this by running this as a service in
Windows. It would be great if I could get a small icon on the
bottom right hand side of the screen between other icons where
I could let the user configure the tool.
Is there anywhere I could find more information about
programming such tools ? Even if I could get some info
about how to do this in C++ would be already a great help.
Thanks,
Mario. |
Re: Windows NT Service
by thatguy (Parson) on Sep 13, 2001 at 15:12 UTC
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my $icon = new Win32::GUI::Icon("tool.ico");
$trayicon = $Window->AddNotifyIcon(-name => "TrayIcon", -id=>1
+,-icon => $icon,
-tip => "$title");
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Re: Windows NT Service
by Graham (Deacon) on Sep 13, 2001 at 16:08 UTC
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You may want to check out this node - 105691 - for information on running perl as a background process under NT
If you have the WindowsNT Resource Kit you can use a program called srvany.exe to run perl scripts as an NT service.
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Re: Windows NT Service
by RayRay459 (Pilgrim) on Sep 13, 2001 at 20:28 UTC
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Cruelty
This is not a very perlish answer, but i have created scripts that run as services with a program called srvany.exe. Its on the Resource Kit CD. YOu can find some examples of code on MSDN. I know that there are some modules that may do the trick, namely: Win32::Daemon. I have not used it yet, but i think i may try it out soon. Good luck and happy hunting.
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Re: Windows NT Service
by Rex(Wrecks) (Curate) on Sep 13, 2001 at 21:08 UTC
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Once again, there is always the perl dev kit from active state that has a tool to turn perl script into services. It is not free though :(
"Nothing is sure but death and taxes" I say combine the two and its death to all taxes! | [reply] |
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