RE: [amibroker] Vista and AmiBroker, AmiBroker Email List Archive

How do you do that? (WMI)

Joseph Biran
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From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ftonetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 1:36 PM
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Vista and AmiBroker

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.
> > ------------------------------------