B4J Question Server app: Form.Showing, minimized state

[peacemaker]

HI, All

If to make a server UI app, it should
1) show on a form its working state, for debugging, setting up... here app periodically updates views on a form
2) but when minimized (or started as a service on a Server OS) - it's better to check this app\form state and do not make views updates, to save the processor time.

Form.Showing property does not help here - it's always True, if even minimized form.

So questions:
1) How to check real form state ?
2) How to check if current state is the service working mode ?
3) How to start app minimized as a service mode ?

 

[Erel]

If it is a real server, created with jServer then it must be a non-ui app. You can create another UI app that interact it with the server app.

 

[peacemaker]

real server, created with jServer

No, here i meant a MS server OS version and B4J UI app that should work as a service (with auto-start if PC was rebooted), and sometimes, periodically it needs extra manual set up, but using UI. And updating views on form is rather costly for processor time

 

[Erel]

You can use jSystemTray to run your app without a form, and show the form when needed.

 

[peacemaker]

jSystemTray to run your app without a form

But where should be placed all code that now is in Form module ? This code creates instants of other non-UI classes...

 

[Erel]

There is no such thing: Form module.

But where should be placed all code that now is in Form module ?

No need to change anything.

 

[peacemaker]

Thanks, Erel. But if the app structure was used basing on B4XPages - it needs to remake it back to simple UI app moving the B4XMainPage code to Main module ?

 

[peacemaker]

jSystemTray to run your app without a form, and show the form when needed.

Yes, it works ! I remade the app to start without UI, but sys tray icon to open the form, and menu for exit.
But this does not help to use it under server OS: the scheduler does not start it anymore at PC start automatically, and app cannot work as a service - it exits just after start.