Claudine: You may be confident of CTRL-ALT-DEL taking you in to task manager without changing or doing anything.
Joan refers to the list of running applications on the "Applications" Tab; the status for each running application is listed. If your app is listed as "Not Responding", it may be your only option is to hit the "End Task" button. But before you do that, certainly look into the possibility of copying the open database, as suggested in the subsequent RBASE-L correspondent's email. good hunting, bruce/safesectors > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Not a Developer Question,but need some > heavydutyhelp to close Report Designer > From: Joan Peterson <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, February 28, 2009 10:09 am > To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) > > > I don't want to try task manager except as a last resort. > > Claudine Robbins wrote: > > Joan, > > > > But is Task Manager status "not responding"? > > > > Claudine > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joan > > Peterson > > Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:34 AM > > To: RBASE-L Mailing List > > Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Not a Developer Question,but need some heavy > > dutyhelp to close Report Designer > > > > Thank you, Claudine. It may well just be one of those "time to shut > > down the computer' things. I know I can do the CTRL-ALT-DEL thing, but > > I'd rather have R:Base close the module and disconnect, than trust it to > > Windows, if I can. > > Joan > > Claudine Robbins wrote: > > > >> Try task manager | Applications | End task > >> > >> CTRL-ALT-DEL or right-click on bottom strip of your desktop to get to task > >> manager. > >> > >> Claudine > >> > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joan > >> Peterson > >> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 10:36 AM > >> To: RBASE-L Mailing List > >> Subject: [RBASE-L] - Not a Developer Question,but need some heavy duty > >> > > help > > > >> to close Report Designer > >> > >> Using latest update of v 7.6 for Windows XP, I was trying to save a > >> report to a text file and opted for preview. When I closed the preview, > >> I appeared to be out of Report Designer. I ran the report to the screen > >> to an .rtf file and discovered that wouldn't work for me, so I went back > >> in and chose a regular text file and chose to open it. It opened in > >> Notepad. When I closed it, only >R and Database Explorer showed at the > >> bottom of the screen. I tried to disconnect but got an error message > >> :"close report/designer first". Using the Help pages I couldn't find > >> anything that would work. Now I can't close the database, nor could I > >> copy it to safeguard it, as it would not copy an open database. How can > >> I get the report designer to close so I can disconnect the database? > >> Only one cursor show up: SQL_CUR35, which I can not drop or close. > >> > >> Thank you for your help. > >> > >> Joan P. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > >
