On Monday 24 August 2009 17:03:21 Zero3 wrote:
> Matthew Toseland skrev:
> > On Friday 21 August 2009 20:12:39 Zero3 wrote:
> >> Matthew Toseland skrev:
> >>> Here's another one:
> >>>
> >>> I accidentally built the installer with the beta branch. The tray icon
> >>> worked, but when I uninstalled, and told it to do the survey, the survey
> >>> failed (as usual), but control panel hung. Ideas? I think it might be
> >>> waiting for firefox to close, but this is very bad behaviour, as there
> >>> may be other stuff in firefox?
> >>>
> >>> I don't think this is specific to the beta branch - we wait for firefox
> >>> (or whatever browser) to close before closing control panel.
> >> Nop, it will not wait for the browser to close. It will exit right after
> >> launching:
> >>
> >> [CODE]
> >> If (_DoSurvey)
> >> {
> >> Run, http://freenetproject.org/uninstall.html, , UseErrorLevel
> >> }
> >>
> >> Exit()
> >> [/CODE]
> >>
> >> (The execute-and-wait-for-it-to-finish command is called "RunWait" as
> >> opposed to the "Run" used here which will continue right away)
> >>
> >> Are you sure that freenetuninstaller.exe is running while the control
> >> panel hangs?
> >
> > I don't know. I do know that control panel hangs until the browser exists.
>
> Odd. Maybe it also considers processes spawned by the uninstaller as
> part of the uninstaller itself, and does not return control to the
> control panel until all of these have terminated. Would make sense, as
> uninstallers often continue in other processes than the originally
> executed one (the wininstaller uninstaller included).
>
> Nevertheless, this is a design choice by Microsoft. If they want to
> freeze out the user while any part of an uninstaller is running, I
> shouldn't try to (and probably can't) get around it.
There must be a way to detach it.
>
> A possible workaround could be to add a message to the survey completion
> page simply asking the user to close the window.
Unfortunately it's broken atm.
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