I'm working on a project that uses Jenkins to run MATLAB (on Windows). The MATLAB function uses the ActiveX server to start PowerPoint, open (or create) a file, put plots on slides, save the file and then exit PowerPoint.
The problem I'm having is that the PowerPoint executable won't quit, and the Jenkins job hangs until I kill it. I've run the same MATLAB function outside of Jenkins, from the MATLAB command line, and even in a DOS command window, and PowerPoint exits with no problem. I finally wrote a separate Jenkins job that uses "tasklist" and "taskkill" to locate and kill the PowerPoint executable. I wrote this job originally for Hudson and don't recall that this was a problem. Does anyone have any experience with this? I'd prefer that the MATLAB function kills PowerPoint, without having to call a separate job. It's not clear whether this is a Jenkins, PowerPoint or MATLAB problem, but because I only see this problem when I use Jenkins, I figured I'd start here. Thanks, jo2dad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
