SV: [DXBase] exit and restart dxbase

Fri, 6 Dec 2002 07:44:58 +0100

Hi, I must admit that I have had similar occurences, but I'm using Windows
2000 Pro, and when this happened, there were no CW or Sound in activity. It
just happened one in about 100 start/stop.
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Sendt: 6. desember 2002 00:26
Til: Tony Cash; Phil ON4VP; [email protected]
Emne: Re: [DXBase] exit and restart dxbase
Tony,
This is not necessarily a DXbase issue. We've seen some reports to MS about
some applications not closing down but nothing that exactly fits the symptom
you report. The symptom you describe might occur on XP because of the way
it treats certain background activities spawned by a parent application. In
the case of DXbase, we run many separate processes to control internet
activity, sound playing, CW, etc.... If at the time you close DXbase, there
is activity going on with any of those features, there is a chance that XP
gets confused because it loses the association with the process that was
running and the main app which is now terminated. It's like a stranded
child ( I guess ). We've not seen this to be an issue with other MS
operating systems, only XP. And, even with XP, we have not seen it to be an
issue if there are no CW or sound files playing, and if the internet window
is closed prior to closing DXbase.
In Phil's situation, there are so many possible issues at play right now in
his system and setup, that he may see something more pronounced, but hard to
say for sure. If it is true that some other software has installed a later
version of DriverX than ours, it well could be that the OS associates DXbase
with the version of DriverX that is running rather than loading ours, but
since it is a later version than ours, it may be that DXbase cannot close it
down and thus it remains associated with DXbase and thus XP reports this at
shutdown. Just a guess. We obviously have no crystal ball and cannot look
into a persons PC setup and associated software installations, their HF
radio configuration, etc.... so there are a lot of possible issues outside
the control of DXbase.
Regards,
Jack
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Cash" <[email protected]>
To: "Phil ON4VP" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: [DXBase] exit and restart dxbase
> This is another one that I know about.
> I have had the same problem.
> When this happens if you will hit Ctrl/Alt/Delete
> which will bring up your task manager, look under
> the "Processes" tab and you will find that DXBase
> is still running in that window. Click on it and then
> click "End Process", you will be ask if you are sure
> click"Yes" then you can go and start DXBase. I have
> no idea what the problem is but this will keep you from
> having to shut the computer down and restart.
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>> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phil ON4VP" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 1:26 AM
> Subject: [DXBase] exit and restart dxbase
>>> two out of maybe four to five times when I exit dxbase 2003 I can not
> restart the program.
> hitting the shortcut or even run the program from command line won't start
> up the program.
> I have to leave my windows XP session ... this means, logging off and
> logging on again.
> after that Dxbase can be fired again. Really enoying, specially when you
> want to exit and load another log profile.
>> Also when this happened I sometimes can not shutdown windows, because
dxbase
> still has things into memory.
> A error message pops up (can not get a screenshot because all hangs) and
> after 10 tot 15 seconds the message disappears and XP shuts down.
>> Could it be that Dxbase keeps things into memory without knowing what.
>> This also (3th kind of a problem) results in other programs telling the
I/O
> device is already in use when I like to run another program to control my
> ts2000. This program thinks com2 is still in use.
>> It all points out to the fact the I/O is kept bussy by DXBASE. Maybe this
> also results in the problematic shut down or restart of the program.
>> I'm not a programmer, so beats me, but very enoying because this happens
two
> out of four times. I hate logging of all the time just because one
program
> makes me to ...
>> Help, help ...
>> Phil ON4VP
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