using shell() to kill app on XP Home?

[Phil Davis]

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
>