Update: I retract what I said about Firefox *not* causing the same problem. The only reason it was working was that I already had FF running before starting DXBase and so all it had to do was open a new tab in the same (already started) process.
If I begin without FF running and let DXBase bring it up from the Programs menu, the same dangling process results. 73, Chris, W2PA From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Aug 11 11:25:34 2007 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ve3wej gmail) Date: Sat Aug 11 11:36:10 2007 Subject: [Dxbase] dangling process References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This does NOT explain why dxbase hangs, when you do NOT use a "program" item. I will try the result you found though, if it is right, I am glad to see an answer after 4 years VE3WEJ Dave Garber ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Codella, W2PA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "DXBase List" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 10:30 AM Subject: [Dxbase] dangling process > I've found the "Programs" menu to be quite handy - but have discovered a > minor problem with it. > > If I use it to start a program, then quit DXBase before closing that other > program, DXBase appears to close (the window vanishes), but the DXBase > process hangs around and prevents it from starting up again until I kill > it manually using the task manager. I can make it happen every time with > three different programs I start with the "Programs" menu. If I quit the > spawned program first, then quit DXBase, everything works fine. > > The only thing I've seen (so far) that doesn't cause this problem is when > I use it to bring up a web page in Firefox. > I tried to force it to background the external programs - I added a '&' to > the end of the command line - but that causes various other problems > depending on the program. I also tried putting the '&' on the argument > list but it also caused problems. > > It's a minor annoyance but probably is easy to fix. > > 73, > Chris, W2PA > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected]
