On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Rainer Meier <r.me...@wpkg.org> wrote:
> Hi Stefan/Michael, > > > On 09.01.2012 19:39, Stefan Pendl wrote: > >> Am 09.01.2012 17:30, schrieb Michael MacKay: >> >>> I have a frustrating little issue. I have a program that needs to >>> register a plugin after it is installed. Very easy to do: DtMaxSdk.exe >>> /register. >>> >>> My problem is, it has a little popup saying successful. I can't find any >>> silent switches, and waiting to hear back from the developer if there is >>> or could be one. The popup comes after it is installed, but if I >>> include it in WPKG it hangs waiting for someone to acknowledge. Is >>> there a way to put a timeout on this in the package.xml and have it just >>> ignore and continue? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Mike >>> >>> >> Commands can have a timeout specified, see http://wpkg.org/Timeouts >> > > If there is no need to wait for the program to finish it's job (or if a > delay does it) then using "start" might be an option: > > @echo off > start dtmaxsdk.exe /register > :: optional, wait 10 seconds, then continue > ping -n 10 localhost > > > This will leave the process running and just continue. > > You might even juggle with "taskkill" after some wait timeout to terminate > the hanging process, but in many cases this is not really an issue, just > leave it running until next reboot. > > br, > Rainer > > ------------------------------**------------------------------** > ------------- > wpkg-users mailing list archives >> http://lists.wpkg.org/** > pipermail/wpkg-users/ <http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/> > ______________________________**_________________ > wpkg-users mailing list > wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org > http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/**listinfo/wpkg-users<http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users> > Perfect, thanks for the suggestions. Tried them both and they work perfect. I think I will put that timeout on more of my packages, and the batch file one works for some other scripting I am doing as alternative/backup to wpkg. Thanks Mike
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