From: Steve Ricketts on
Sounds like a very interesting product. I just took a look at their web
site and will play around with it a bit. Thanks for the heads-up on that
one.

sr

"Schmidt" <sss(a)online.de> wrote in message
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>
> "Steve Ricketts" <velocedge(a)hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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>
>> Contents are changed each time it's run.
>> The bat file builds a rounded corner button .gif with
>> transparency with gradient colors based on a start
>> and end value. All the sizes and colors will differ as
>> well as the type.
>
> Aside from the "batch-start-problem"...
>
> If you can live with generated *.png-file content instead
> of the *.gifs, you can do that (and much more, as for
> example direct *.pdf creation) directly inside your VB-
> service-App with the use of a free cairo-wrapper-library.
>
> Let me know, if I should give you an example for that
> (all drawing-routines antialiased, rounded rects, etc...
> gradients with different color-stops, transparent overlays...
> rotation, text-out, etc - all no larger problem, since
> you talk with the cairo-lib over a VB-COM-Object).
>
> But also GDI+ should work fine for that (in case the
> Server-OS is a relative "fresh one", it should be
> already preinstalled/available).
>
> Olaf
>
>
From: Steve Ricketts on
That's certainly part of it. I don't really want to tie up the service
waiting for the program to create the graphics. This particular service can
get pretty busy and did didn't seem like a good idea to have it wait while
four graphic files were created.

sr

"Karl E. Peterson" <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote in message
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> Steve Ricketts has brought this to us :
>> BTW, I can make this work by calling the executables directly in each
>> line of the .bat file. But I would really like to know how to run a .bat
>> file from a service in case I ever need to do it again.
>
> It's extremely difficult to envision a scenario where you *need* to call a
> batch file from a full-blown programming language. The only one that
> comes immediately to mind would be the ease with which you could go async
> on the call. Is that the real issue?
>
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>
From: Karl E. Peterson on
Steve Ricketts was thinking very hard :
> "Karl E. Peterson" <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote...
>> Steve Ricketts has brought this to us :
>>> BTW, I can make this work by calling the executables directly in each line
>>> of the .bat file. But I would really like to know how to run a .bat file
>>> from a service in case I ever need to do it again.
>>
>> It's extremely difficult to envision a scenario where you *need* to call a
>> batch file from a full-blown programming language. The only one that comes
>> immediately to mind would be the ease with which you could go async on the
>> call. Is that the real issue?
>
> That's certainly part of it. I don't really want to tie up the service
> waiting for the program to create the graphics. This particular service can
> get pretty busy and did didn't seem like a good idea to have it wait while
> four graphic files were created.

Okay, you're starting to make a case for it. <g>

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From: Karl E. Peterson on
Steve Ricketts formulated on Monday :
>>>> I was wondering about that too, do you use a batch file for speed, or
>>>> could you replace it with a VB program?
>>>
>>> Contents are changed each time it's run.
>>
>> I don't think you answered the question. Or even thought about it.
>>
>>> The bat file builds a rounded corner button .gif with transparency with
>>> gradient colors based on a start and end value. All the sizes and colors
>>> will differ as well as the type.
>>
>> No, the bat file doesn't do that. The bat file executes another program
>> that does that. Again, why a bat file?
>
> Sorry... I thought I did answer. I'll try again.
>
> Not using the bat for speed, more for flexibility. The batch file is created
> by another process as a result of a user changing style information about
> their web site. The values change each time it's created and the parameters
> are different from user to user.

Ahhhhh... It was the part about "another process" that didn't come
through before. I thought *your* process was creating the batch file,
then shelling out to it.

> Like I said in one of the other posts, I
> have the program running by executing each individual line within the
> service, but I won't always have that luxury.

That would've been my first suggestion - that you simply open the batch
file up, and execute it line by line yourself.

> So, the question is really is
> now more about how to run a bat file from a service than this specific
> example.

I've never diddled with services before, to be honest. Are you unable
to run *any* batch file, or just not run this particular one?

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From: Steve Ricketts on
Can't run any batch file.

sr

"Karl E. Peterson" <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote in message
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> Steve Ricketts formulated on Monday :
>>>>> I was wondering about that too, do you use a batch file for speed, or
>>>>> could you replace it with a VB program?
>>>>
>>>> Contents are changed each time it's run.
>>>
>>> I don't think you answered the question. Or even thought about it.
>>>
>>>> The bat file builds a rounded corner button .gif with transparency with
>>>> gradient colors based on a start and end value. All the sizes and
>>>> colors will differ as well as the type.
>>>
>>> No, the bat file doesn't do that. The bat file executes another program
>>> that does that. Again, why a bat file?
>>
>> Sorry... I thought I did answer. I'll try again.
>>
>> Not using the bat for speed, more for flexibility. The batch file is
>> created by another process as a result of a user changing style
>> information about their web site. The values change each time it's
>> created and the parameters are different from user to user.
>
> Ahhhhh... It was the part about "another process" that didn't come
> through before. I thought *your* process was creating the batch file,
> then shelling out to it.
>
>> Like I said in one of the other posts, I have the program running by
>> executing each individual line within the service, but I won't always
>> have that luxury.
>
> That would've been my first suggestion - that you simply open the batch
> file up, and execute it line by line yourself.
>
>> So, the question is really is now more about how to run a bat file from a
>> service than this specific example.
>
> I've never diddled with services before, to be honest. Are you unable to
> run *any* batch file, or just not run this particular one?
>
> --
> .NET: It's About Trust!
> http://vfred.mvps.org
>
>
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