using shell() to kill app on XP Home?
Phil Davis
davis.phil at comcast.net
Fri May 27 21:19:11 EDT 2005
Thanks Dar. I tried the 'for neither' approach but it doesn't work, at
least for the Mac version of my helper app - it's a Unix executable.
However, shell() works fine for both starting and killing it. I don't
have the Windows version of this thing yet, but it'll be a DOS app. It's
a USB device interface app (for a specific device), using HID & low
level calls on the device side and sockets on the Rev side.
Phil Davis
Dar Scott wrote:
>
> On May 27, 2005, at 3:14 PM, Phil Davis wrote:
>
>> To use Rev's 'kill' in this situation, I'll need to get the process
>> name from outside Rev (and then I'm not sure if it'll be what Rev is
>> looking for, but that's a different issue). That leads me back to
>> shell(), since my helper app doesn't show up in 'the openProcesses'.
>> Still, if I can find a way to get the PID at app start time and
>> preserve it until needed for 'kill', that would be preferable to
>> everything else. I'll keep working on it.
>
>
> You can try 'open process ... for neither' to run it (no "start"
> needed). And then 'close process'. I had trouble with 'open process'
> in the olden days and don't use it, but 'for neither' might not have
> those problems.
>
> Dar
>
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