Is there a way to start your own seperate thread when WAA loads that can 
perform tasks at given times?

In my case it's just to send an email out every 1/2 hour.

TIA

Jeremy

Hi Jeremy,
>Is there a way to start your own seperate thread when WAA loads that can 
>perform tasks at given times?
It is just an DLL that gets loaded, so you could de several things.
use an init procedure/function, or adapt the _register function.

so you might put this in:

init proc initemailsend()
   thread():new():start(||emailsend})
   return 

function emailsen()
   do while .t.
      //do my thing
     sleep(30*60*100)  30Mins  60 secs  .001 second
   enddo

in stead of the init proc you cane put the thread start line in your
_register function.

Hope this helps
Regards
Sander

I thought about that, but the inbuilt sendmail function needs oContext which 
doesn't seem to be available when the _register function is called.

Jeremy

"Sander Elias" <Sander@eso.nl> wrote in message 
news:mn6ob1delfsg04to8t6fqfp12qor1k1dem@4ax.com...
> Hi Jeremy,
>>Is there a way to start your own seperate thread when WAA loads that can
>>perform tasks at given times?
> It is just an DLL that gets loaded, so you could de several things.
> use an init procedure/function, or adapt the _register function.
>
> so you might put this in:
>
> init proc initemailsend()
>   thread():new():start(||emailsend})
>   return
>
> function emailsen()
>   do while .t.
>      //do my thing
>     sleep(30*60*100)  30Mins  60 secs  .001 second
>   enddo
>
> in stead of the init proc you cane put the thread start line in your
> _register function.
>
> Hope this helps
> Regards
> Sander

Jeremy,

>I thought about that, but the inbuilt sendmail function needs oContext which 
>doesn't seem to be available when the _register function is called.
ok 2 solutions,
1.
do a runshell to start the IE, to fetch a page that starts your
routine. something like
runshell("http://localhost/startmymailthingie")

2.
Use a different e-mail sending solution. there are a few options. the
sendmail option is depended on the web server being configured all
right, and that the server is allowed to send mail. 
use asinet or see4xb to send your mail. this will work independent
from you web server.

regards
Sander

Sander,

>>I thought about that, but the inbuilt sendmail function needs oContext which 
>>doesn't seem to be available when the _register function is called.

Firstly, ASINET is part of WAA, so if you have the professinal subscription
(for the asinet1c.lib) then you can use this.

Alternatively, it is possible to create a context object like this:

   a := &("Context()")
   a := a:new()

However, you cannot send a mail like this because oContext requires a
socket connection to waa1gate.exe.

In this case, you'll have to use ASINET classes or Xb2.NET or another
library capable of sending emails.

Regards,

Phil Ide

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