Here's the summary of where this is right now. When I run the bat file manually by starting the PIF the window closes as it should. I tried adding exit to the end of the batch file last night and the text just shows up in the window too. Adding /c at the end of the program definition in WUG just replaces the first variable with /c.
Thanks, everybody for the rapid help on this, and especially Scott, for your suggestion below which does cause the window to close. That's the good news, now the bad news. Besides the flicker of the DOS window every time it runs, it halts the screen saver! I do have Allow Screensaver checked in the Misc tab of the pif properties. Scott Montgomery wrote: > > Try these two lines at the end of your batch: > > @echo off > cls > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Volpi Alessandro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 3:19 AM > Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Screen saver info > > Hi everyone... > Have you already tried with an "Exit" at the end of the batch file? > Good Luck! > > Alessandro Volpi - Technical Account > NetScalibur S.p.A. > Via Caldera 21, 20153 Milano > Tel: +39 (0)2 4824-2381 > Mobile +39 348 3964092 > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rod Carty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 1:46 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [WhatsUp Forum] Screen saver info > > Joe; > > Thanks for the reply. Your info looks great, and initial testing is > promising. One quirk though is the DOS window stays open after the bat > file is run. I redefined things to go through a pif shortcut, which I > specified was to close the window on exit, but the window still stays > open. Any ideas? > > Joe Sepielli wrote: > > > > Rod, > > > > Here is a simple method to write WhatsUp Gold status information > > to a file. You can then use that file as the input to your > > scrolling marquee application. > > > > - Create a a bat file containing this command: > > echo WhatsUp Gold Status at %1 ... Down Devices:%2, Devices with down > services%3>test.out > > - Create a Program Notification: > > o Program filename=yourfile.bat > > o Program arguments=%t %e %A > > - Create a Recurring Notification that calls yourfile.bat. > > > > This exmample uses a few of the following notification variables: > > (see the help file for full details) > > %A Names of devices with down services All Notifications > > %e Down Host Display Names All Notifications > > %t Current time (hh:mm:ss) All Notifications > > > > Joe > > > > In reply to 20 Nov message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > > >I'm thinking about building a screen saver for one of my customers that > displays simple > > >scrolling marquee-style text and changes color according to WUG's status. > I've looked > > >around for an existing screen saver that could accept some real-time > input like this > > >and found nothing so it looks like I'm building it. I looked through the > registry for > > >WUG, looking for some item there that should indicate current status > similar to the WUG > > >taskbar icon - green, yellow or red - but didn't find anything. Does > someone know of a > > >way for me to hook into WUG realtime? > -- Rod C-- Enterprise Network Consulting Whitehorse, Yukon http://www.enc.yk.net/ http://www.geocities.com/rodcarty/ >> Excuse me, I have to go now. My plot to take over the world is thickening. << The preceding humor inserted by QuipSig http://www.enc.yk.net/quipsig/ 4,000 quip repertory! Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
