US Tray Menu: Start Stop
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US Tray Menu Start and Stop
Introduction
Our generic menu is lacking in terms of controllability, not a problem for its intended use as a standard tray men. All that is required is the ability to start it.
However for a Uniform Server specific version we require finer control.
This page covers modifications providing finer control using a set of predefined functions. These allow independent start and stop via batch files and corresponding scripts. A user requires only a top-level executable to run the menu while a script such as move-servers requires full remote control.
Configuration files
Folder unicon\tray_menu_2\includes contains two new files relating to menu control.
config2.inc.php
We will include configuration files from the main controller however one constant is not defined, path to our new menu.
This is defined in a separate configuration file along with any other constants we will require.
/* Path variables - NO BACKSLASH */
// All paths are absolute referenced to folder UniServer
$path_array2 = explode("\\unicon",dirname(__FILE__)); // Split at folder unicon
$base2 = "$path_array2[0]"; // find drive letter and any sub-folders
$base2_f = preg_replace('/\\\/','/', $base2); // Replace \ with /
//=== FOLDERS ===
define("US_BASE2_F", "$base2_f"); // Uniform server base folder forward slash
define("US_UNICON_TRAY_MENU2", US_BASE2_F."/unicon/tray_menu_2"); // UniTray menu folder
functions2.php
This file contains common functions there are four functions relating to our tray menu.
File UniTray1.exe is dynamically renamed (digit incremented) during move servers see next page for details.
get_unitray2_exe()
Before starting or stopping menu the name is acquired using the following function:
function get_unitray2_exe(){
$dir_handle=opendir(US_UNICON_TRAY_MENU2); // Get handle to Base dir
while($file=readdir($dir_handle)){ // Loop through folder names
if(preg_match("/^UniTray.+exe/", $file)){ // Search for executable name
$UniTray_exe=$file; // Match found save
break; // Noting else to do give up
}
}
closedir($dir_handle);
return $UniTray_exe; // Return executable UniTray*.exe
}
start_unitray2()
UniTray is started or restarted from a number of scripts.
The following function starts UniTray. Note it always assumes executable name has changed.
function start_unitray2(){
$UniTray_exe = get_unitray2_exe(); // get program name
$cmd1 = "start $UniTray_exe"; // start program
$cmd2 = ' -n '; // pass onfiguration file
$cmd3 = 'UniTray.phpw'; // pass script
$cmd = $cmd1 . $cmd2 . $cmd3 ; // Build command
pclose(popen($cmd,'r')); // run and detatch
}
stop_unitray2()
UniTray is stopped from a number of scripts.
The following function stops UniTray.
Note it always assumes executable name has changed.
Generally tray menu is minimised, it needs to be maximised for a clean kill otherwise artefacts (image) remain in the system tray. Hence it is first started and then killed using pskill.
function stop_unitray2(){
$UniTray_exe = get_unitray2_exe(); // get program name
start_unitray2(); // Forces min to max before killing
sleep(2); // Give it a chance to pop-up
$cmd = USF_PSKILL_EXE." $UniTray_exe" .' c'; // Create command c=kill command
exec($cmd,$dummy,$return); // run command to kill app
}
unitray2_running()
There are occasions where it is desirable to check if UniTray is running the following function returns true if running.
function unitray2_running(){
$UniTray_exe = get_unitray2_exe(); // get program name ;
$cmd = USF_PSKILL_EXE." $UniTray_exe"; // command line to be run
exec($cmd,$dummy,$return); // 0=running 1=not-running
if($return == 0){ // Check return value
return true; // UniTray is running
}
else{
return false; // UniTray not running
}
}
Independent control
For testing and portability PHP scripts are run using batch files. The following batch files and scripts start and stop our tray menu: Top
Start
Tray menu is started using the following batch file:
Start_UniTray.bat
:php-win.exe -n start_unitray.php php.exe -n start_unitray.php pause
This batch file runs the following script:
start_unitray.php
chdir(dirname(__FILE__)); // Change wd to this files location
include_once "../main/includes/config.inc.php";
include_once "../main/includes/functions.php";
include_once "includes/config2.inc.php";
include_once "includes/functions2.php";
run_location_tracker(); // Have servers moved if moved
// update configuration accordingly
start_unitray2();
exit;
Function start_unitray2() starts UniTray.
Note 1:
Any script that can potentially runs our servers first checks to see if servers have been relocated and rewrites paths accordingly.
Note 2:
The above script is common and run from folder UniServer see later.
Stop
The following two scripts stop UniTray
stop_unitray.bat
:php-win.exe -n stop_unitray.php php.exe -n stop_unitray.php pause
This batch file runs the following script:
stop_unitray.php
chdir(dirname(__FILE__)); // Change wd to this files location
include_once "../main/includes/config.inc.php";
include_once "../main/includes/functions.php";
include_once "includes/config2.inc.php";
include_once "includes/functions2.php";
run_location_tracker(); // Have servers moved if moved
// update configuration accordingly
stop_unitray2();
exit;
Function stop_unitray2() stopps UniTray.
Top-level control
Folder UniServer\unicon\tray_menu_2\top_level contains the following two files:
- Start_UniTray_2.exe
- Start_UniTray_2.bat
These both can be copied to the top-level folder UniServer to start UniTray.
Generally only Start_UniTray_2.exe needs to be copied. The batch file is povided for testing.
Start_UniTray_2.bat
This is a very simple script:
CD unicon\tray_menu_2 php.exe -n start_unitray.php
It runs start_unitray.php script. For convenience the batch file is converted to an exe.
Summary
The above provides several ways to control our new tray menu.
The fine control (functions) is put to good use on the next page, which coversenabling move servers