Force program to close if broken

[Klexen]

I was wondering if you can force your program to terminate (without use of killing process with task manager) if it gets hung up. In some of my functions that run I have WinWaitActive command or similar, and lets say for whatever reason that window could never be active, the program will hang until it is and you can't do anything. Is there a way to set a hotkey to force your program to terminate, even if it's stuck in a pause state from function not being completed.

For instance, Say I want my program to run several different functions at the click of the button, and while those functions are running, I want to blockinput. Then after functions run enable input. Well if the program hangs during a function, input would be blocked for good.

Any ideas? Did what I say make sense? Heh.

Edited July 5, 2007 by Klexen

[herewasplato]

Look at WinClose and WinKill.

[AutoItKing]

ProcessClose.

[Klexen]

Yeah but will those work even if program is stuck in a function? Or would I need to run a seperate script to set a hotkey to kill the program?

[mikehunt114]

As long as your script isn't hung up, all of the above should close your app.

[herewasplato]

Yeah but will those work even if program is stuck in a function? Or would I need to run a seperate script to set a hotkey to kill the program?

You can write your functions so that they will never get stuck - they always have a timeout and they pass window info to an "Exit function" that closes your window of interest and unblocks user inputs... then it can exit the script of just display an error MsgBox.

[Xenobiologist]

Hi,

or use ablibEnable to check every x ms for something.

So long,

Mega

[BullGates]

There's a function for that (sorry not to mention the author, but I have it on my snipplets library):

If _NotResponding("TITLE HERE", "TEXT HERE[OPTIONAL]", 1) Then; The last parameter indicates whether you want to close the hung app or not.
     MsgBox(0, "", "Hung Application, closing app now.")
Else
     MsgBox(0, "", "Application running as intended.")
EndIf
 
Func _NotResponding($title, $text, $closeIfHung = 0)
     $hWnd = WinGetHandle($title, $text)
     If $hWnd == "" Then
          MsgBox(0, "Error", "Could not find window")
          Exit
     EndIf
     $retArr = DllCall("user32.dll", "int", "IsHungAppWindow", "hwnd", $hWnd)
     If @error == 0 Then
          If $retArr[0] == 1 Then
               If $closeIfHung Then
                    ProcessClose(WinGetProcess($title, $text))
               EndIf
               Return 1
          EndIf
     Else
          Return 0
     EndIf
EndFunc   ;==>_NotResponding

[ResNullius]

There's a function for that (sorry not to mention the author, but I have it on my snipplets library):

Credit where credit is due: author = neogia http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...st&p=176988

[ChrisL]

The winwaitactive, winwait commands have a timeout period option, so why don't you set a timeout period and always check on the next line to see if the window is active, visible ect, if not then come out of the function and do whatever else you need to do to get to where you want to be.

Edit: Added crude example

Do 
    $exists = WaitForWindow("Untitled - Notepad","",10)
    If $exists = 0 then 
        Msgbox(0,"Failure","Notepad doesn't exist")
        Run ("Notepad.exe")
    Else
        Msgbox(0,"Success","Notepad exists")
    EndIf
Until $exists = 1


Func WaitForWindow($win,$Txt="",$timeout=0)
    
    WinWait($win,$Txt,$Timeout)
    
    If WinExists($win,$Txt) then 
        Return 1
    Else
        Return 0
    EndIf
    
EndFunc

Edit2: You can do the same with this code and not using a separate function, but the example above showed you how to come out of your function

Do 
    $exists = WinWait("Untitled - Notepad","",10)
    If $exists = 0 then 
        Msgbox(0,"Failure","Notpead doesn't exist")
        Run ("Notepad.exe")
    Else
        Msgbox(0,"Success","Notpead exists")
    EndIf
Until $exists = 1

Edited July 6, 2007 by ChrisL

[Klexen]

Thanks guys! I got somethin workin to do it now!