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Re: [amibroker] Vista and AmiBroker



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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: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
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> >
> > To get support from AmiBroker please send an e-mail directly to
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> >
> > For NEW RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENTS and other news always check DEVLOG:
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> >
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> >
> >
> >
>
>
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