win32utils devel - Feb 2010 - Can't get TaskScheduler.new to work for 0.3.0

Hi,

Ruby 1.8.6 mingw
Windows 7 Ultimate

Just playing with the ole branch for win32-taskscheduler, but I can''t
get it to work. I tried this:

$:.unshift ''lib''
require ''rubygems''
require ''win32/taskscheduler''
include Win32

task = ''test_delete_me''

trigger = {
  ''start_year''   => Time.now.year + 1,
  ''start_month''  => 4,
  ''start_day''    => 1,
  ''start_hour''   => 7,
  ''start_minute'' => 14,
  ''trigger_type'' => TaskScheduler::DAILY,
  ''type''         => { ''days_interval''
=> 1 }
}

ts = TaskScheduler.new
ts.new_work_item(@task, @trigger)
ts.activate(@task)

But that resulted in this error from RegisterTaskDefinition in new_work_item:

HRESULT error code:0x80020009

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Dan

Hi,

2010/2/22 Daniel Berger <djberg96 at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> Ruby 1.8.6 mingw
> Windows 7 Ultimate
>
> Just playing with the ole branch for win32-taskscheduler, but I
can''t
> get it to work. I tried this:
>
> $:.unshift ''lib''
> require ''rubygems''
> require ''win32/taskscheduler''
> include Win32
>
> task = ''test_delete_me''
>
> trigger = {
> ?''start_year'' ? => Time.now.year + 1,
> ?''start_month'' ?=> 4,
> ?''start_day'' ? ?=> 1,
> ?''start_hour'' ? => 7,
> ?''start_minute'' => 14,
> ?''trigger_type'' => TaskScheduler::DAILY,
> ?''type'' ? ? ? ? => { ''days_interval''
=> 1 }
> }
>
> ts = TaskScheduler.new
> ts.new_work_item(@task, @trigger)
> ts.activate(@task)
>
> But that resulted in this error from RegisterTaskDefinition in
new_work_item:
>
> HRESULT error code:0x80020009
>
> Any ideas?
>
As I mentioned before, the current taskscheduler implementation is not
compatible with Vista and Windows 7.

Refer to http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/win32utils-devel/2009-June/001438.html

Regards,

Park Heesob

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Heesob Park <phasis at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2010/2/22 Daniel Berger <djberg96 at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Ruby 1.8.6 mingw
>> Windows 7 Ultimate
>>
>> Just playing with the ole branch for win32-taskscheduler, but I
can''t
>> get it to work. I tried this:
>>
>> $:.unshift ''lib''
>> require ''rubygems''
>> require ''win32/taskscheduler''
>> include Win32
>>
>> task = ''test_delete_me''
>>
>> trigger = {
>> ?''start_year'' ? => Time.now.year + 1,
>> ?''start_month'' ?=> 4,
>> ?''start_day'' ? ?=> 1,
>> ?''start_hour'' ? => 7,
>> ?''start_minute'' => 14,
>> ?''trigger_type'' => TaskScheduler::DAILY,
>> ?''type'' ? ? ? ? => {
''days_interval'' => 1 }
>> }
>>
>> ts = TaskScheduler.new
>> ts.new_work_item(@task, @trigger)
>> ts.activate(@task)
>>
>> But that resulted in this error from RegisterTaskDefinition in
new_work_item:
>>
>> HRESULT error code:0x80020009
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
> As I mentioned before, the current taskscheduler implementation is not
> compatible with Vista and Windows 7.
Oh, I thought you were only referring to the 0.2.0 version, not the ole branch.

Regards,

Dan

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Daniel Berger <djberg96 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Heesob Park <phasis at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2010/2/22 Daniel Berger <djberg96 at gmail.com>:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Ruby 1.8.6 mingw
>>> Windows 7 Ultimate
>>>
>>> Just playing with the ole branch for win32-taskscheduler, but I
can''t
>>> get it to work. I tried this:
>>>
>>> $:.unshift ''lib''
>>> require ''rubygems''
>>> require ''win32/taskscheduler''
>>> include Win32
>>>
>>> task = ''test_delete_me''
>>>
>>> trigger = {
>>> ?''start_year'' ? => Time.now.year + 1,
>>> ?''start_month'' ?=> 4,
>>> ?''start_day'' ? ?=> 1,
>>> ?''start_hour'' ? => 7,
>>> ?''start_minute'' => 14,
>>> ?''trigger_type'' => TaskScheduler::DAILY,
>>> ?''type'' ? ? ? ? => {
''days_interval'' => 1 }
>>> }
>>>
>>> ts = TaskScheduler.new
>>> ts.new_work_item(@task, @trigger)
>>> ts.activate(@task)
>>>
>>> But that resulted in this error from RegisterTaskDefinition in
new_work_item:
>>>
>>> HRESULT error code:0x80020009
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>> As I mentioned before, the current taskscheduler implementation is not
>> compatible with Vista and Windows 7.
>
> Oh, I thought you were only referring to the 0.2.0 version, not the ole
branch.
Actually, after looking at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/vista/tasks2.mspx,
it sure looks like that code should work. I converted that script to
use Ruby''s win32ole and it worked just fine.

git clone git at github.com:djberg96/win32-taskscheduler.git
git checkout -b ole origin/ole

I''ll play with it some more later.

Regards,

Dan

Hi,

2010/2/22 Daniel Berger <djberg96 at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Daniel Berger <djberg96 at
gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Heesob Park <phasis at
gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> 2010/2/22 Daniel Berger <djberg96 at gmail.com>:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Ruby 1.8.6 mingw
>>>> Windows 7 Ultimate
>>>>
>>>> Just playing with the ole branch for win32-taskscheduler, but I
can''t
>>>> get it to work. I tried this:
>>>>
>>>> $:.unshift ''lib''
>>>> require ''rubygems''
>>>> require ''win32/taskscheduler''
>>>> include Win32
>>>>
>>>> task = ''test_delete_me''
>>>>
>>>> trigger = {
>>>> ?''start_year'' ? => Time.now.year + 1,
>>>> ?''start_month'' ?=> 4,
>>>> ?''start_day'' ? ?=> 1,
>>>> ?''start_hour'' ? => 7,
>>>> ?''start_minute'' => 14,
>>>> ?''trigger_type'' => TaskScheduler::DAILY,
>>>> ?''type'' ? ? ? ? => {
''days_interval'' => 1 }
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> ts = TaskScheduler.new
>>>> ts.new_work_item(@task, @trigger)
>>>> ts.activate(@task)
>>>>
>>>> But that resulted in this error from RegisterTaskDefinition in
new_work_item:
>>>>
>>>> HRESULT error code:0x80020009
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>
>>> As I mentioned before, the current taskscheduler implementation is
not
>>> compatible with Vista and Windows 7.
>>
>> Oh, I thought you were only referring to the 0.2.0 version, not the ole
branch.
>
> Actually, after looking at
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/vista/tasks2.mspx,
> it sure looks like that code should work. I converted that script to
> use Ruby''s win32ole and it worked just fine.
>
> git clone git at github.com:djberg96/win32-taskscheduler.git
> git checkout -b ole origin/ole
>
> I''ll play with it some more later.
>
Sorry, I fogot I made the taskscheduler version 2.0 implementation :)
It should work for vista and windows 7.
I''ll look into the source code.

Regards,

Park Heesob

Hi,

2010/2/22 Daniel Berger <djberg96 at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> Ruby 1.8.6 mingw
> Windows 7 Ultimate
>
> Just playing with the ole branch for win32-taskscheduler, but I
can''t
> get it to work. I tried this:
>
> $:.unshift ''lib''
> require ''rubygems''
> require ''win32/taskscheduler''
> include Win32
>
> task = ''test_delete_me''
>
> trigger = {
> ?''start_year'' ? => Time.now.year + 1,
> ?''start_month'' ?=> 4,
> ?''start_day'' ? ?=> 1,
> ?''start_hour'' ? => 7,
> ?''start_minute'' => 14,
> ?''trigger_type'' => TaskScheduler::DAILY,
> ?''type'' ? ? ? ? => { ''days_interval''
=> 1 }
> }
>
> ts = TaskScheduler.new
> ts.new_work_item(@task, @trigger)
> ts.activate(@task)
>
> But that resulted in this error from RegisterTaskDefinition in
new_work_item:
>
> HRESULT error code:0x80020009
>
> Any ideas?
>
You have two wrong constant definitions in taskscheduler.rb.

    TASK_UPDATE = 0x3
    TASK_CREATE_OR_UPDATE = 0x4

should be

    TASK_UPDATE = 0x4
    TASK_CREATE_OR_UPDATE = 0x6


Regards,

Park Heesob

Heesob Park wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 2010/2/22 Daniel Berger <djberg96 at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Ruby 1.8.6 mingw
>> Windows 7 Ultimate
>>
>> Just playing with the ole branch for win32-taskscheduler, but I
can''t
>> get it to work. I tried this:
>>
>> $:.unshift ''lib''
>> require ''rubygems''
>> require ''win32/taskscheduler''
>> include Win32
>>
>> task = ''test_delete_me''
>>
>> trigger = {
>>  ''start_year''   => Time.now.year + 1,
>>  ''start_month''  => 4,
>>  ''start_day''    => 1,
>>  ''start_hour''   => 7,
>>  ''start_minute'' => 14,
>>  ''trigger_type'' => TaskScheduler::DAILY,
>>  ''type''         => {
''days_interval'' => 1 }
>> }
>>
>> ts = TaskScheduler.new
>> ts.new_work_item(@task, @trigger)
>> ts.activate(@task)
>>
>> But that resulted in this error from RegisterTaskDefinition in
new_work_item:
>>
>> HRESULT error code:0x80020009
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
> You have two wrong constant definitions in taskscheduler.rb.
> 
>     TASK_UPDATE = 0x3
>     TASK_CREATE_OR_UPDATE = 0x4
> 
> should be
> 
>     TASK_UPDATE = 0x4
>     TASK_CREATE_OR_UPDATE = 0x6
Oy, thanks.

Dan

Hi,

As you know, 0.3.0 is not working on XP and 0.2.x is not working on
Vista and laster.

For now, we have 0.2.x for XP, 2K and 2003 and 0.3.x for Vista, 2008 and 7.

What''s your release plan of win32-taskscheduler?

Any idea of the unified version?

Regards,

Park Heesob

Heesob Park wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As you know, 0.3.0 is not working on XP and 0.2.x is not working on
> Vista and laster.
> 
> For now, we have 0.2.x for XP, 2K and 2003 and 0.3.x for Vista, 2008 and 7.
> 
> What''s your release plan of win32-taskscheduler?
> 
> Any idea of the unified version?
I was thinking about that last night. My initial idea is to ship 3 files:

taskscheduler.rb
taskscheduler1.rb
taskscheduler2.rb

taskscheduler1.rb would be the current 0.2.0 branch.
taskscheduler2.rb would be the new code.

taskscheduler.rb would then require taskscheduler1.rb or 
taskscheduler2.rb based on the current version of windows. I have some 
helper functions in windows-pr for that.

Does that seem reasonable?

Regards,

Dan