Delphi Service Example 1

[ResonantEcho]

thread102-791024

In regard to the above thread. May I get you to provide the values for the following constants you use in your code example?

STR_REGKEY_SVC
STR_REGVAL_IMAGEPATH
STR_REGVAL_DESCRIPTION
STR_INFO_SVC_DESC
STR_REGKEY_EVENTMSG
STR_REGVAL_EVENTMESSAGEFILE
STR_REGVAL_TYPESSUPPORTED
STR_REGKEY_FULL
STR_REGVAL_INSTALLDIR

 

[whosrdaddy]

 STR_VERSION_MAIN                = '1.0';
 STR_NAME_COMPANY                = 'YourCompany';
 STR_NAME_APPLICATION_SHORT      = 'YourApplicationName';
 STR_NAME_APPLICATION            = STR_NAME_COMPANY+' '+STR_NAME_APPLICATION_SHORT;
 STR_NAME_SVC                    = 'Svc_YourService';

 // service main registry keys
 STR_REGKEY_SOFTWARE             = '\Software';
 STR_REGKEY_COMPANY              = '\'+STR_NAME_COMPANY;
 STR_REGKEY_APPLICATION          = '\'+STR_NAME_APPLICATION_SHORT;
 STR_REGKEY_FULL                 = STR_REGKEY_SOFTWARE+STR_REGKEY_COMPANY+STR_REGKEY_APPLICATION+'\'+STR_VERSION_MAIN;
 STR_REGKEY_EVENTMSG             = '\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\EventLog\Application\'+STR_NAME_APPLICATION;
 STR_REGKEY_SVC                  = '\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\'+STR_NAME_SVC;

 STR_REGVAL_INSTALLDIR           = 'InstallDir';
 STR_REGVAL_IMAGEPATH            = 'ImagePath';
 STR_REGVAL_DEPENDONSERVICE      = 'DependOnService';
 STR_REGVAL_DESCRIPTION          = 'Description';
 STR_REGVAL_EVENTMESSAGEFILE     = 'EventMessageFile';
 STR_REGVAL_TYPESSUPPORTED       = 'TypesSupported';

 STR_INFO_SVC_DESC               = STR_NAME_APPLICATION+' '+STR_VERSION_MAIN;
 STR_INFO_SVC_REGFAIL            = 'Registry is not initialized for service';
 STR_INFO_SVC_START              = 'Starting service...';
 STR_INFO_SVC_STARTED            = 'Service has been started';
 STR_INFO_SVC_STARTFAIL          = 'Service failed to start : "%s"';
 STR_INFO_SVC_STOP               = 'Stopping service...';
 STR_INFO_SVC_STOPPED            = 'Service has been stopped';
 STR_INFO_SVC_STOPPEDWITHERROR   = 'Service stopped due to main thread error, please check debug log';
 STR_INFO_SVC_STOPFAIL           = 'Service failed to stop : "%s"';

 STR_INFO_SVC_NOCONFIG           = 'Unable to load service configuration file';

I hope this is enough

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[ResonantEcho]

Most definitely helps!!!!

Thank you. Very much appreciated.

 

[ResonantEcho]

Okay. Would you happen to have the source code for these units as well? I'm converting an old Delphi 7 service to use a thread and have seen these units referenced on Stack Overflow, etc. However, source never provided.

[ul]
[li]u_eventlog[/li]
[li]u_MyThread[/li]
[/ul]

ResonantEcho

 

[ResonantEcho]

BTW, is it necessary to use the "u_eventlog" unit? Why not use TEventLogger instead?


// ResonantEcho

 

[Glenn9999]

BTW, is it necessary to use the "u_eventlog" unit? Why not use TEventLogger instead?

You do realize the original thread you referenced was 12 years ago when Delphi 7 was the most current Win32 option? Perhaps TEventLogger didn't exist then?

As for source: u_eventlog . Didn't find reference to the other.

 

[whosrdaddy]

Yes, code is a bit dated but still usable.
Nothing stops you from using TEventlogger

/Daddy

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[ResonantEcho]

You do realize the original thread you referenced was 12 years ago when Delphi 7 was the most current Win32 option? Perhaps TEventLogger didn't exist then?

As for source: u_eventlog . Didn't find reference to the other.

Hi Glenn,

Believe it or not I'm having to use Delphi 7 and TEventLogger does exist. It's what Xerox currently has available. Hoping they upgrade to Delphi 10 here soon considering I'm having to update up to 160 applications written in Delphi.

I did eventually find the "u_eventlog", but not the other.

Take care.


// ResonantEcho

 

[ResonantEcho]

Yes, code is a bit dated but still usable.
Nothing stops you from using TEventlogger

Going to give it a try. Thanks!


// ResonantEcho

 

[Glenn9999]

Nothing wrong with Delphi 7, it's probably the best option out there right now for Delphi given it's probably the most stable, least bloated platform that offers most all of the essentials you'd need. About the only thing that gets added is newer/different widgets/API calls - the API calls are pretty reproducible and the widgets only add value if they're valuable to you/the company. Of course, that's just one opinion out of many.

As far as the 160 applications, if they're all service-oriented, it might be useful to try to distill some things into some generic classes if you can. A lot of coding tends to involve a whole lot of disorganization and repeated inventing of wheels (for reasons both logical and unjustified) - I know I've been shocked at how abhorrent a lot of the code I've seen has been in my "professional" experiences simply for the lack of even a small amount of planning. Of course, the "logical" part is always pretty hard to solve, and I'd like to find a good solution to that just for my own stuff, much less code on the scope of a company.

How things are, I suppose...