OOo as NT service

[Zsolt]

Hello!

Can I run OOo as an NT service ? Or it is possible only from the command line using the following command ?

soffice.exe -invisible -accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.NamingService

Many thanks !
Zsolt

[DannyB]

If you could, would you really want to?

I assume you want OOo as an NT service so that it can be running even when nobody is logged in.

What happens when a program running as a service tries to put up any user interface? (I don't know the answer to that.) Launching it with the -invisible option might be an option.

Isn't it possible to build a Service in Visual Basic using a wizard? (Again, I don't know VB, but I've seen this done.) If so, then build a trivial wrapper "service" in VB that gets the proper service events (i.e. start, stop) and then launches or terminates the soffice program. Launch soffice with -invisible. Terminate soffice by using automation from VB to get the Desktop object and then call the terminate() method on it.

I'm assuming that you want to do something like make API calls to a running OOo service in order to do document conversion from one type to another. For example, a web service or page that converts XLS to PDF could be implemented by calling OOo via. its api. When you open the XLS document, be sure to add a property that indicates to open it hidden. I learned about that last weekend when building my Document Converter program, which is also described here

http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2810

on OOoForum.
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[DannyB]

See these for running OOo as an NT service.

http://api.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=863018&listName=dev

http://www.techeez.com/windows_tips/service_under_nt.htm
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Want to make OOo Drawings like the colored flower design to the left?