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leandropoblet
Frequent Contributor
11 years ago

Waiting for process to terminate fails

I'm trying to make this function work, but unfortunately I couldn't so far: while (stillRunning) { if (timeOut > maxTime) { Log["Error"]("The App failed to shutdown corr...
  • simon_glet's avatar
    simon_glet
    11 years ago
    Hi Leandro,



    The code you provided executes immediately with no waiting at all.



    Try something like this:



    function TestNotepadCloseWithAlias()

    {

      var maxDelay = 10000;

      var interval = 2000;

      var stopWatch = HISUtils.StopWatch;



      stopWatch.Start();



      while(Aliases.notepad.Exists){

        Delay(interval);

        if(stopWatch.Split() > maxDelay){

          break;

        } else {

          Log.Message("Waiting for " + stopWatch.ToString() + " Will wait for application to close");

        }

      }



      stopWatch.Stop();



      if(Aliases.notepad.Exists)

      {

        Log.Error("Application did not close in time " + maxDelay + " milliseconds");

      } else {

        Log.Message("Application closed in " + stopWatch.ToString());

      }

    }



    Sincerely



leandropoblet's avatar
leandropoblet
Frequent Contributor
11 years ago
Hi Simon,



At that moment in time I wasn't measuring time (actually I stripped it out just for the post).  I'm measuring it with a stopwatch , without difference in the results.



The opposite actually happens. It takes too long to identify the process is not running.



Here is the full code, but it doesn't have any difference in the results:



function CheckClientIsShutdown()

{

  var maxTime = 30000;

  var timeOut = HISUtils["StopWatch"];

  var stillRunning = true;

 

  timeOut["Start"]();

 

  while (stillRunning)

  {

    if (timeOut["Split"]() > maxTime)

    {

      Log["Error"]("The app failed to shutdown correctly.");

      timeOut["Stop"]();

      timeOut["Reset"]();

      break;

    }

    else

    {

      if (Aliases[processName]["Exists"])

      {

        Log["Message"]("The app process is still running. " + Math.round(timeOut["Split"]()) + " seconds and waiting");

      }

      else

      {

        stillRunning = false;

      }

    }

  }

  Log["Message"]("The app process has been shutdown correctly in " + Math.round(timeOut["Split"]()) + " seconds");

  timeOut["Stop"]();

}



So it will always stop at 30000 milisecs. Even when the app's been closed for a while.



Sincerely