AutoClose V 1.2

AutoClose V 1.2

OliverK

(Homepage) - October 1, 2009 - 2:43pm

Application:AutoClose
Category: Utilites
Description: AutoClose is my way of making the PortableAppsMenu have a "Run on exit" option. There is no GUI, but the program is fairly extensible. Please make sure to read the help.html file for instructions. I should also mention that you need to set the menu to run this program at start. It loads and waits for the menu to close. Thne it acts.

Download AutoClose [384KB download / 212KB installed]
(MD5: b8ed2182ce89bbe9eeaf18780795e23c)

Release Notes:

Version 1 (2009-10-01):
Version 1.1(2010-1-13):
Version 1.1.1(2010-1-13):
Version 1.2(2010-1-13):
- Inserted prapper's fix to my code.
- Since no one said my adjustments to the help.html file were bad, I've included those.

( categories:

Beta Testing

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nobody react? such a shame I

dinosoep - January 12, 2010 - 1:25am

nobody react?
such a shame
I am going to try it out because I wrote a clumsy vbs script to accomplish the same.
thanks for it, I am going to report the bugs I'll find

your program takes up 75

dinosoep - January 12, 2010 - 1:36am

your program takes up 75 procent of my cpu.
consider to make it sleep for a couple of seconds in the loop where you check if pa is already stopped

looks like same issue I had

OliverK

(Homepage) - January 12, 2010 - 4:33pm

looks like same issue I had with geany. Well, I'll take a look at wraithdu's solution. Maybe post a fix tommorrow afternoon

Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world

Oh yeah, that's a very tight

wraithdu

- January 12, 2010 - 10:01am

Oh yeah, that's a very tight loop. I suggest using ${ProcessWaitClose} from my ProcFunc header -

http://portableapps.com/node/12561

yeah. I'm at my 'new'

OliverK

(Homepage) - January 12, 2010 - 4:37pm

yeah. I'm at my 'new' college, so I t\don't really trust the computers yet. Looks like I'll have to haul my laptop in too .

Anyway, I will take a look at this tommorrow. I had the same tight loop in geany portable and chazz (or dabomb? I can't keep them straight.) complained. I fixed it, and geany improved noticably. I didn't fix it in this one because I didn't notice that much of a difference when it was on.

I do hope to have a fix in place by tommorrow afternoon.

Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world

Using my ProcFunc header it

wraithdu

- January 12, 2010 - 7:49pm

Using my ProcFunc header it should be a piece of cake, literally

${ProcessWaitClose} "some.exe" "-1" $0

if I remember right.

EDIT: fixed download in my thread

Testing on dual-core?

Bruce Pascoe - January 12, 2010 - 7:31pm

You won't notice it at all on a multi-core system because it'll only saturate one of the cores. But on a single-core machine, one app sucking all the CPU cycles will really put a dent in the performance of everything else.

I don't believe so. Like I

OliverK

(Homepage) - January 13, 2010 - 12:20pm

I don't believe so. Like I said, I've never noticed it, but I"m usually using like a 3.0 ghz processor when I'm running it. I'll fix it later today. I just woke up

Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world

3.0Ghz?!

Bruce Pascoe - January 13, 2010 - 4:25pm

It probably has hyper-threading, though, if it's that fast. Which is kinda like a proto-dual-core.

Trying it out. I'll let you

Gord Caswell

- January 12, 2010 - 10:03am

Trying it out. I'll let you know what I find.

I fixed the download in my

wraithdu

- January 12, 2010 - 7:49pm

I fixed the download in my ProcFunc thread for ya.

Updated See top for details.

OliverK

(Homepage) - January 13, 2010 - 3:23pm

Updated

See top for details.

Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world

thanks, its working great.

dinosoep - January 14, 2010 - 10:59am

thanks, its working great.

...

Bruce Pascoe - January 14, 2010 - 11:28am

Why isn't this working? I have the following INI:

[AutoClose]
ProgramToWatch=PortableAppsPlatform.exe

[ProgramList]
Application1=\PortableApps\PortableFileAssociator\PortableFileAssociator.exe exit

...but PFA isn't closing when I close the menu. If I run the same exact command from the command line or Run dialog, PFA closes properly. What's going on?

Also, small annoyance: AutoClose causes Windows to show a persistent "busy" mouse cursor for a few seconds after launching it. Any chance this could be fixed?

question

dinosoep - January 14, 2010 - 2:13pm

question one:
[AutoClose]
ProgramToWatch=PortableAppsPlatform.exe

[ProgramList]
Application1=\PortableFileAssociater\PortableFileAssociator.exe exit
question two:
no

Wait

Bruce Pascoe - January 14, 2010 - 2:17pm

You mean it's relative to the PortableApps directory? Heh, never would have figured that one out. That should documented somewhere.

wel, It took me 15 minuts

dinosoep - January 14, 2010 - 3:26pm

wel, It took me 15 minuts
first of all I didn't knew were to place the ini.
then I tried everything and that was the result
its working now but please document it beter next time

sure Its hard to write a

OliverK

(Homepage) - January 14, 2010 - 4:40pm

sure

Its hard to write a good progam, and sometimes even harder to write good documentation.

*EDIT* I'm going to put up a copy on 'my' server, so you guys can read and comment on it.

*EDIT2* Its up .

Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world

...but PFA isn't closing when

OliverK

(Homepage) - January 14, 2010 - 4:36pm

...but PFA isn't closing when I close the menu. If I run the same exact command from the command line or Run dialog, PFA closes properly. What's going on?

What dinosoep said

Also, small annoyance: AutoClose causes Windows to show a persistent "busy" mouse cursor for a few seconds after launching it. Any chance this could be fixed?

Also what dinosoep said. I'm not sure why its doing this, I save most of the processing until you close the menu. It's probably window's way of being a pain. Or NSIS.

Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world

...

Bruce Pascoe - January 14, 2010 - 7:31pm

I think the busy cursor is because it's not creating a window so Windows thinks it's still loading (after about 5 seconds I guess it gives up waiting). There must be some API function you can call to signal to the OS that you're done loading... of course, I haven't used the Windows API in ages (I prefer .NET now), so I'm stumped here.

Hmm, you know, now that wyou

OliverK

(Homepage) - January 14, 2010 - 7:44pm

Hmm, you know, now that you mention the window, I think that there may be something I can do.

Here's what I'm planning. If I can do, then I will release the 1.1 as 1.2 (or Stable . Then, I will release 1.3 (or testing). Probably overkill though

*EDIT* Actually, after looking through my source, I can't see anything. My guess (and I eally am just guessing) that the api call would have to go before the program tries to initiate a window. Since NSIS is a installer which should have windows, there's not much I can really try to do.

I do have the standard things:
SilentInstall Silent AutoCloseWindow True

set in the launch, so I'm not real sure how I implement this.

Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world

Splash

prapper

- January 15, 2010 - 1:24am

I'd like to tell you why this works but I don't know. Although it does

Put "AutoClose.jpg" in Other\Source. You won't see it because the splash time is set to "0" (so no hourglass).

Section "Main"
	;=== Fix the hourglass
		InitPluginsDir
		File /oname=$PLUGINSDIR\splash.jpg "${NAME}.jpg"
		newadvsplash::show /NOUNLOAD 0 0 0 -1 /L "$PLUGINSDIR\splash.jpg"

	etc...

	TheEnd:
		newadvsplash::stop /WAIT
		Quit

The reason it works

Bruce Pascoe - January 15, 2010 - 1:38am

It works because newadvsplash is creating a window, even though it's never shown. Once a process calls CreateWindow for the first time, Windows figures it's ready to go and nixes the hourglass.

It's funny, I never noticed

wraithdu

- January 15, 2010 - 6:05pm

It's funny, I never noticed that behavior of NSIS before, probably because I've never used an NSIS script that either A) didn't have a window, or B) didn't run something really quick then exit.

I guess console apps don't have this problem though.

Too bad there isn't a trivial way to manually create a hidden window in NSIS. I suppose something could be written to do the process manually to quickly create a window then destroy it, just to get around this annoyance. Yeah, callbacks with the System plugin are soooo much fun.....

I'm fairly certain

Bruce Pascoe - January 15, 2010 - 6:09pm

I'm fairly certain there's an API function you can call in place of CreateWindow to signal to the OS you're done loading, but for the life of me I can't remember what it was now.

I'll have to try that. Though

OliverK

(Homepage) - January 15, 2010 - 12:12pm

I'll have to try that. Though I might make a nice looking splash screen just so nobody can see it

Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world

Hehe.

Bruce Pascoe - January 15, 2010 - 5:25pm

Damn, creating a window is

wraithdu

- January 15, 2010 - 8:37pm

Damn, creating a window is impossible in NSIS because it's impossible to make the window procedure callback function correctly. NSIS is majorly single threaded, which means you have to access the callback FROM the main thread in some kind of massochistic loop.

Unfortunately CreateWindow sends messages to the window procedure before returning. There is no way to respond to these messages so I believe CreateWindow fails and returns NSIS's soooo helpful 'error', even though GetLastError returns 0.

If anyone has any ideas to get around this, outside of writing a plugin, I'm all ears.

...

Bruce Pascoe - January 15, 2010 - 9:57pm

I would say the invisible splash method mentioned above is probably the best bet for now. It could even just be 1x1 image since it's never going to be displayed anyway, then the only overhead would be the newadvsplash plugin itself.

Version 1.2. I updated the

OliverK

(Homepage) - January 15, 2010 - 10:36pm

Version 1.2. I updated the help.html, by putting in some thanks for people I should have put in.

I also went ahead and made a nice looking spash screen. Maybe I'l make it appear for a few seconds in a later version. Without that hourglass icon, how will we know its running

Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world

Much better

Bruce Pascoe - January 15, 2010 - 11:01pm

No more annoying hourglass!

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nobody react? such a shame I

your program takes up 75

looks like same issue I had

Oh yeah, that's a very tight

yeah. I'm at my 'new'

Using my ProcFunc header it

Testing on dual-core?

I don't believe so. Like I

3.0Ghz?!

Trying it out. I'll let you

I fixed the download in my

Updated See top for details.

thanks, its working great.

...

question

Wait

wel, It took me 15 minuts

sure Its hard to write a

...but PFA isn't closing when

...

Hmm, you know, now that wyou

Splash

The reason it works

It's funny, I never noticed

I'm fairly certain

I'll have to try that. Though

Hehe.

Damn, creating a window is

...

Version 1.2. I updated the

Much better