Hello. I'd like to know if it's possible to quit a process that was started by a skin when the skin is unloaded. Alternatively, is there a way to make some test to check wheter a skin is actually laoded or not?
I have tested the recycle bin plus skin that demonstrate how to use DropIt with rainmeter and noticed that if you unload the skin, DropIt will keep running. I think it would really help when doing such integration of third party applications inside a skin to be able to terminate the process when the skin is unloaded.
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Quitting processes when skin is unloaded
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r0k
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Quitting processes when skin is unloaded
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Re: Quitting processes when skin is unloaded
He wants it to not have to be a button though. I believe he wants it integrated into rainmeter itself; On unload, execute the following.
I wouldn't mind having this ability myself. :P
I mean there technically is an "On Load" execute ability (OnRefreshAction) but there is no "On Unload" action. I find it would make a good compliment.
I wouldn't mind having this ability myself. :P
I mean there technically is an "On Load" execute ability (OnRefreshAction) but there is no "On Unload" action. I find it would make a good compliment.
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OnRefreshAction=!Execute [*START APP*]
OnUnloadAction=!Execute [*TASKKILL STARTED APP*]
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r0k
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Re: Quitting processes when skin is unloaded
santa_ryan : yes something like this. Well, from your answer it looks like there is no built-in way to do this currently.
Some kind of limited workaroud currently would be to have a check built in another skin to parse rainmeter.ini and look for "active=0" for a given skin, then pass taskkill command. I guess it can be done with either webparser or a LUA script but it would only work for skin suites and only if there is some kind of "master" skin that won't be unloaded.
Not sure how hard it would be to implement but it could definitely be useful I'll put a feature request tag to my first post.
EDIT : maybe a mod can move this to the Bugs and Features forum. I didn't post there because i wanted to know if there was an existing feature before asking for.
Thanks
Some kind of limited workaroud currently would be to have a check built in another skin to parse rainmeter.ini and look for "active=0" for a given skin, then pass taskkill command. I guess it can be done with either webparser or a LUA script but it would only work for skin suites and only if there is some kind of "master" skin that won't be unloaded.
Not sure how hard it would be to implement but it could definitely be useful I'll put a feature request tag to my first post.
EDIT : maybe a mod can move this to the Bugs and Features forum. I didn't post there because i wanted to know if there was an existing feature before asking for.
Thanks
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Re: Quitting processes when skin is unloaded
This has been implemented as OnCloseAction in the next beta coming tomorrow.
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Re: Quitting processes when skin is unloaded
Wow! Great! reallyjsmorley wrote:This has been implemented as OnCloseAction in the next beta coming tomorrow.
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r0k
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Re: Quitting processes when skin is unloaded
Wow. That's greatjsmorley wrote:This has been implemented as OnCloseAction in the next beta coming tomorrow.
I hope it wasn't too much trouble to code.
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Re: Quitting processes when skin is unloaded
It was like 4 lines of code.
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Re: Quitting processes when skin is unloaded
Never, ever let on that anything was easy! It was a complete re-write of the __rmCoreInterOp() routines, and took 100 man hours to code and 40 to debug and unit test.Brian wrote:It was like 4 lines of code.
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Re: Quitting processes when skin is unloaded
Don't forget the lawyer we had to hire to make sure we weren't violating any patents.jsmorley wrote: Never, ever let on that anything was easy! It was a complete re-write of the __rmCoreInterOp() routines, and took 100 man hours to code and 40 to debug and unit test.