pre-submission vb script ?

Deadline
1

Hi there,

I extended the DF submission script. It now submits a commandline job, that uses virtualDub to make divx's from the rendered output. Works great so far, with job dependence and everything. Sometimes one of our operators has a divx opened on his workstation and virtualDub fails because it can't write to opened files.

What I need is a vbs or so, that checks if the divx-avi is opened by someone before the virtualDub job starts. It also has to "net send" a message to the guy with the divx opened. I could use "psfile.exe" for scanning the file server for active file handles.

The question is: how to trigger the "who-has-divx-opened.vbs" before Deadline starts the job ? How to tell Deadline that the job start is dependent on a negative feedback of the vbs?

cheers

Marcus
2

What you can probably do is modify the DF plugin to check if the process

is running and handle it appropriately. There is a script file called

StartJob.ffs in the fusion plugin directory, which performs a bunch of

checks and operations before starting the job, so that would be a good

place to start.



The script plugin documentation can be found here:

http://software.franticfilms.com/index.aspx?page=deadline/sdk/scriptplugin



Cheers,

3

I’ll give it a try, thanks.