Thank You all for the replies. What I get is that you should write a short script in some language that searches the process table before shutdown and make sure that all occurrences of broker.exe are closed.
RIGHT ? Thanks, Ed --- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > A VBS implemenation ... > > Set oWMI = GetObject("WinMgmts://localhost") > For Each oProcess In oWMI.ExecQuery ("select * from Win32_Process where name='Broker.EXE'") > oProcess.Terminate > Next > > Careful of the line wraps ... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "J. Biran" > Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 4:50 pm > Subject: RE: [amibroker] Vista and AmiBroker > To: [email protected] > > > How do you do that? (WMI) > > > > > > > > Joseph Biran > > ____________________________________________ > > > > > > > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 1:36 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [amibroker] Vista and AmiBroker > > > > > > > > Best to check whether AB has actually shut down or not using > > WMI ... If it hasn't or refuses to via OLE it can be > > terminated this way as well. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Ara Kaloustian > > Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 4:20 pm > > Subject: Re: [amibroker] Vista and AmiBroker > > To: [email protected] > > > > > Ed, I had same problem with XP. > > > > > > Mine was clearly caused by shutting down AB using jscript > > or OLE > > > . I suppose > > > it was OLE since that runs last. > > > > > > I beleive it was the way I was closing AB after processing > > data. > > > > > > Sorry can not be more specific, but I do know various OS > > respond > > > differently > > > to script / OLE. > > > > > > currently I use (in OLE): > > > To open: AB = new ActiveXObject("Broker.Application") > > > To Close: AB.Quit() > > > > > > Ara > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Ed Hoopes" > > > To: > > > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 1:07 PM > > > Subject: [amibroker] Vista and AmiBroker > > > > > > > > > >I have a < 1 year old (new to me) laptop running AB 5.13 > > with the > > > > Vista operating system. > > > > > > > > Twice, when I shut down the computer things go very > > wrong with the > > > > shutdown hanging and other ??? stuff. When I re-boot > > > AmiBroker is > > > > very corrupted, requiring days of re-building things. I > > > understand AB > > > > well enough to fix things - probably in a clumsy way, > > though. > > > > > > > > I have been baffled as to why this is happening - but > > now I > > > have a > > > > hint - I just went to shut things down and my FireFox > > browser was > > > > still running as a zombie process - not visible in the > > app > > > tray or in > > > > the Task Manager Applications tab, but visible in the > > Process tab. > > > > When I killed the process, then the shutdown proceeded. > > ! > > > (FireFox was > > > > smart enough to prompt me that it was still running and > > wanted > > > to know > > > > what it should do.) > > > > > > > > HYPOTHESIS - Maybe AB becomes a zombie and corrupts > > things > > > when the OS > > > > shuts down anyway?? > > > > > > > > Anyone out there having this problem??? > > > > > > > > ReefBreak > > > > > > > > PS My previous Toshiba laptop with Win XP NEVER did > > this. > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > > > > > >
