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Re: Win32lib: ExitProcess

• Posted by 10963508 at europeonline.com Jul 16, 2002
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If you use doEvents(0) in loop and user exits program exw.exe process will
still be running.
Maybe sending WM_CLOSE again will close that process?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek Parnell" <Derek.Parnell at SYD.RABOBANK.COM>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: RE: Win32lib: ExitProcess


>
> Done. I will suggest that if somebody really, really wants to run
> ExitProcess, that they do it in their App after WinMain() returns.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Craig [mailto:rds at RapidEuphoria.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, 16 July 2002 7:28
> > To: EUforum
> > Subject: Re: Win32lib: ExitProcess
> >
> >
> > Don Phillips writes:
> > > Hey Derek.  I am almost sure that this call is not really needed.
> > > Mostly it just unloads the linked DLLs and frees some
> > Windows management
> > > memory.  However, since it is technically Euphoria that is doing the
> > > loading of all these objects, I think these things will be
> > cleared up
> > > automatically anyways as soon as Euphoria itself
> > terminates... ( I think).
> >
> > Someone pointed out to me (Euman? Derek?) a long time ago
> > that a small amount of space reserved for loaded .dll's was
> > not being freed
> > when Euphoria for Windows terminated.
> >
> > ExitProcess() frees these .dlls, so I started to use it in my
> > local version
> > of exw.exe. I discovered however (before releasing 2.3) that although
> > ExitProcesss unloads the .dlls, it *doesn't* flush regular files
> > that were written-to but never closed or flushed by the
> > Euphoria program.
> > This is something that the normal C exit() *does* do, and I'd like
> > Euphoria users to be able to count on it. So I went back to
> > using exit(),
> > but I now keep track of all the loaded .dll's and I free them
> > with FreeLibrary() at the end - see Cleanup() in runtime.c
> > in the Euphoria source. Cleanup also outputs the profiling
> > information,
> > displays warning messages, and a few other minor things.
> >
> > So I think it's better that Win32Lib not call ExitProcess(),
> > but if there's any other cleanup that we are now going to miss,
> > I'd like to know about it.
> >
> > Regards,
> >    Rob Craig
> >    Rapid Deployment Software
> >    http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
> >
> >
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