Running NewsPro as a Service
Running NewsPro as a Service
Has there been any experience in running newspro as a service in Win2k using something like FireDaemon?
Try it, maybe it will work in your case.
There was one report about GUI lockup, while running Terminal Service session on a Wink2 server, probably connected to the fact that newspro uses 2 GUI threads, maybe some bug in the implementation of the service (there was another bug connected to having several GUI threads in Win2k that I traced to a system dll and was able to resolve only by disabling it so it is not unthinkable). But since I don't know exact details and how exactly user ran it so it may well work in your case (in fact the bug I described above was the only introduced system bug I had to address, although it was very nasty and difficult to reproduce).
Generally now I'm getting rid of all windows specific code everywhere where performance won't be compromised (in fact performance only increases then, only time is needed to replace things with my own code), to make a program working better in Windows one needs to make its code as less dependent from the system as possible (but not to the point of absurd)
There was one report about GUI lockup, while running Terminal Service session on a Wink2 server, probably connected to the fact that newspro uses 2 GUI threads, maybe some bug in the implementation of the service (there was another bug connected to having several GUI threads in Win2k that I traced to a system dll and was able to resolve only by disabling it so it is not unthinkable). But since I don't know exact details and how exactly user ran it so it may well work in your case (in fact the bug I described above was the only introduced system bug I had to address, although it was very nasty and difficult to reproduce).
Generally now I'm getting rid of all windows specific code everywhere where performance won't be compromised (in fact performance only increases then, only time is needed to replace things with my own code), to make a program working better in Windows one needs to make its code as less dependent from the system as possible (but not to the point of absurd)