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Remy Lebeau (TeamB) wrote:
> "Azrin Aris" <azrin_aris@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:418ad25b$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> 
> 
>>What my service will do is to continously capture frames from
>>the video cam. This for a university project - Smart trafic light.
>>So the service will capture images from the cameras located on
>>junctions.   I will then write an application to either ask the service
>>to start/stop capture frames, capture to AVI, change the
>>parameters so on and so forth.
> 
> 
> Start/Stop is simple, you can use ControlService() for that.  Also, if the
> service can get the AVI filename from another source, such as a
> configuration file or the Registry, then you can use ControlService() to
> handle start/stop of AVI capture as well.  As for changing parameters, you
> could store the new values into the service's configuration file or Registry
> key, and then use ControlService() to request the service to reload the new
> settings as needed.
> 
> It is not documented, but TService has a virtual DoCustomControl() method to
> handle custom messages sent via ControlService().
> 
> 
> Gambit
> 
> 
Thanks Remy, The DoCustomControl() is I think the solution that I'm 
looking for. One more question, how do I set the Description of the 
service?. I cannot find any method or property to do that?

Azrin