My understanding of a service is that it is supposed to run in the background with no UI.
I have the following service app. I believe I have done everything I am supposed to do. I have turned off "Debug Mode" in the "Developer Options" of preference.
I assigned this app to the "Favorites" panel so that I can either just click on it or use a hotkey. When I click on the icon in the favorites panel for this app, I get an app window that pops up in the "App Viewer 1" panel. It is empty and has just my app title "CSP Add Seq Service"
How can I prevent the app window from showing up when I click on the app in Favorites?
Thanks
Chris
Here is my code
{
"type": "service",
"id": "94FB9D80-057A-4726-BDD1-F68D6B4E571F",
"version": "1.0",
"author": [
"CSP"
],
"name": {
"": "CSP Add Seq Service"
},
"description": {
"": "As a Service - Adds all selected files to the category PicSet/PicSet_NNN using the next highest sequence number"
},
"defaultDocument": "index.html",
"icon": {
"": "app.png"
}
}
And here is the app
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>CSP Add Seq: Service</title>
</head>
<!-- jQuery and Bootstrap -->
<script src="/system/jquery/dist/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="/system/bootstrap-4/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js"></script>
<!-- The IMatch and IMWS helper libraries - they make access to IMWS and IMatch very easy -->
<script src="/system/imws/imwslib.js"></script>
<script src="/system/imatch/imatchlib.js"></script>
<body>
<script>
$(document).ready(function () {
// Update appInfo in the UI
IMatch.appInfo({
instanceid: IMatch.instanceId()
}).then(function (response) {
console.log('Running ' + response.app.localName);
});
RunMe();
function RunMe() {
console.log('Did run me');
}
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
Quote from: ChrisPlak on March 17, 2021, 02:51:44 AM
My understanding of a service is that it is supposed to run in the background with no UI.
Service apps are run at startup by IMatch and shutdown when it goes away; they're meant to do something in the background (listen for events over the websocket connection, then do something - like if a file has been added to a particular folder, get it copied elsewhere, etc).
If you put it on a favourite, IMatch will open another copy of it when you run it....
A Modal one might be better for what you're trying to do (not used them, so can't really say!)
Service apps are automatically run by IMatch in the background (no UI!) after IMatch has started and should shut-down when they did their job.
You don't add service apps to Favorites or start them manually - except maybe for debugging purposes.
Understood. The only reason why I assigned it a favorite was so that I could get a hotkey for that service/app.
Is there any functionality then that would allow me to write my own app/service that is activated by a hotkey and does not have any sort of UI?
Basically, what I am attempting to do is to assign a category that is built up dynamically from other data to a selection of pictures. I would prefer to have this bound to a hotkey/keystroke as opposed to having an App/service taking up screen real estate. And to get the speed of using a hotkey where I don't have to move my hand off of the keyboard.
That's a typical task for a normal app. The UI of your app is what you make it.
Make it a modal app (runs in a dialog). Then just call IMatch.modalClose() when your app is done. If it is fast, you may not even see the modal window.