Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll look at them in the reverse order I received them as Eric's looks the most pertinent to generally enhance J. The ideas from Oleg and Simon may be relevant in a wider context.
On 7/4/07, Eric Iverson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Assuming it is j.exe and not jconsole.exe, my guess is that the shutdown fails because of the 'Do you want to close?' message box that J issues when it gets the shutdown message. You could track down where this wd'mb ...' is issued and patch in a way to avoid it for you task. If you try this and it works let us know as we should probably provide a standard way to disable that mb. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Devon McCormick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "J-programming forum" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 1:40 AM Subject: [Jprogramming] Signal for system shutdown? > Members of the Forum - > > I have a J process that runs in the background and spawns other processes. > The problem is, when I shut down my system, the shutdown halts with a > message > telling me the system couldn't shut down J and asking if I want to > proceed. > > Does anyone know how I can catch the system shutdown signal, assuming > there > is such a thing, and make my program a better (Windows) citizen? That is, > I'd > like it to shut itself down without requiring manual intervention when > everything else > is being shut down. > > Thanks, > > Devon McCormick, CFA > ^me^ at acm. > org is my > preferred e-mail > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
-- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
