[Dxbase] dangling process

Sat Aug 11 10:30:17 EDT 2007

I've found the "Programs" menu to be quite handy - but have discovered a 
minor problem with it.
If I use it to start a program, then quit DXBase before closing that 
other program, DXBase appears to close (the window vanishes), but the 
DXBase process hangs around and prevents it from starting up again until 
I kill it manually using the task manager. I can make it happen every 
time with three different programs I start with the "Programs" menu. If 
I quit the spawned program first, then quit DXBase, everything works fine.
The only thing I've seen (so far) that doesn't cause this problem is 
when I use it to bring up a web page in Firefox. 
I tried to force it to background the external programs - I added a '&' 
to the end of the command line - but that causes various other problems 
depending on the program. I also tried putting the '&' on the argument 
list but it also caused problems.
It's a minor annoyance but probably is easy to fix.
73,
Chris, W2PA