Windows kill process

[Monte Goulding]

While you seem to have an answer I'm wondering if open process / close process wouldn't be a simpler solution for you. If I remember right you are polling a file but you could be polling the process too if you open the process for read.

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M E R Goulding
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On 12/03/2013, at 4:48 AM, Thomas McGrath III <mcgrath3 at mac.com> wrote:

> Ok, so again I have still yet another problem I can't seem to figure out. After I launch my external key trapper app from livecode and then want to quit I can't seem to get it to quit.
> 
> I have been trying all of these with what appears to be no luck:
> 
> put the itemDelimiter into tItemDelimiter
> put the effective filename of this stack into tPath    
> set the itemDelimiter to slash
> put item 1 to -2 of tPath into tPath
> set the itemDelimiter to tItemDelimiter
> put tPath & slash & "KeyTrapper.exe" into tKeyTrapperPath
> kill QUIT process tKeyTrapperPath
> 
> or
> put the itemDelimiter into tItemDelimiter
> put the effective filename of this stack into tPath    
> set the itemDelimiter to slash
> put item 1 to -2 of tPath into tPath
> set the itemDelimiter to tItemDelimiter
> put tPath & slash & "KeyTrapper.exe" into tKeyTrapperPath
> kill 9 process tKeyTrapperPath
> 
> get shell("killall KeyTrapper")
> 
> get shell("killall KeyTrapper.exe")
> 
> get shell("killall keytrapper.exe")
> 
> kill 9 process "KeyTrapper.exe"
> 
> 
> ANy ideas what I'm doing wrong here????
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Tom
> 
> -- Tom McGrath III
> http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
> mcgrath3 at mac.com
> 
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