How to create a background process

[Josep]

Thanks for the info, I still testing. When finish I explain my experiencie. 

Salut,
Josep



TEDennis wrote:
> 
> 
> Josep wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I experimented with the send in time command.
>> I need to program some tasks to run at fixed time and days. Like schedule 
>> a task for a backup for example.
>> How can control this? Any experience?
>> And how lunch these task in the way that don't stop or delay the
>> app and/or system?
>> 
>> My idea is to program the time that the task must
>> be run. When the app is lunched I check thr task for day and 
>> "send in time" the task.
>> The task will be executed by a standalone stack.
>> The task are backups and calculate grand totals.
>> 
>> By other way a lunch speak messages to the user, but if one message is
>> runnig
>> and one second message start, the first is stoped.
>> How wait until the revspeak finish before start the next?
>> I tryed from a custom message and using wait for message but doesn't
>> work.
>>  
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> Salut,
>> Josep
>> 
> 
> A heads-up, just in case it happens to you, too.
> 
> I've had difficulties with the "Send in time" process.  As long as the Rev
> task is the only Vista task running, it works fine.  ie: it can run all
> weekend, firing itself every nn minutes (15 or less depending on context).
> 
> However, during the week when I am using my PC to do other things at the
> same time (multiple browser sessions, for instance), the message I "sent
> in time" doesn't always get triggered.  I have to manually restart it.  I
> don't know what causes that to happen.  I have spent an hour or two trying
> to track it down, but since the task is not critical to my daily
> operations, I just ignore the problem and restart it manually.  It's
> frustrating, because I occasionally miss an interesting "event" that I'm
> tracking, but it's not worth the time and effort to spend a bunch of time
> tracking it down.
> 
> The "driver" task just does a "put URL tURL into tMessageHTML" and then
> re-triggers itself with a ||send "autoCapture" to me in tSeconds seconds||
> before it processes the tMessageHTML it received.  The task has only one
> stack; the mainstack.  I think that means the "autoCapture" message isn't
> getting fired in "tSeconds" seconds, or it's getting fired and for some
> reason doesn't get processed.
> 
> TED
> 

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