DXPro - TaskBar & SysTray dont work
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OK, so I created a Gadget w/ DXPro 3.1
There is an "X" exit button on my app. I set it to an object controller, it sends a Destory message to the group.
This works fine. I had someone install the app on their machine (WinXP - no stardock apps). The application itself works fine. However, they click on the Exit button and the app goes away. BUT if you look in taskmanager you still see the .exe app running in your list of processes. Not good.
So I thought, I'll recompile it and set that one option to Task Bar rather than my normal None (I know that SysTray doesn't work and exhibits this behavior, but I had not previously tried with Task Bar).
OK, so my victim, err guinea pig, err friend runs the new .exe Everything seems to work fine. He clicks on the X button to exit the app. The Gadget is still showing in the Task Bar. Right-click, close, and it's gone.
That all seems fine (well, it's still a bug w/ the zombie process left over...). Now he attempts to run the .exe again. THis time the app does not appear on the desktop. All we see is the app in the Task Bar. Click on the task bar and nothing happens (well there is an animated "flash" going from the task bar to the upper lefthand corner of the screen, but other than that nothing happens). We can't get the app to appear on the desktop so that we can actually use it. Right-click and select "Restore" Still nothing.
Basically, now after the first run, we cannot use the app AT ALL. We close it, I recompile w/o the Task Bar stuff set, and we are back to exiting the app and then having to go into Task Manager and killing the zombie process by hand. It sucks, makes it look bad, but at least it works and we can actually use the app.
This has been here since at least 3.0 (the first version of DXPro that I had.
I don't see anything anywhere about a new release of DXPro, or anything about a fix or workaround or anything, so what gives?
Thanks,
Brain21
There is an "X" exit button on my app. I set it to an object controller, it sends a Destory message to the group.
This works fine. I had someone install the app on their machine (WinXP - no stardock apps). The application itself works fine. However, they click on the Exit button and the app goes away. BUT if you look in taskmanager you still see the .exe app running in your list of processes. Not good.
So I thought, I'll recompile it and set that one option to Task Bar rather than my normal None (I know that SysTray doesn't work and exhibits this behavior, but I had not previously tried with Task Bar).
OK, so my victim, err guinea pig, err friend runs the new .exe Everything seems to work fine. He clicks on the X button to exit the app. The Gadget is still showing in the Task Bar. Right-click, close, and it's gone.
That all seems fine (well, it's still a bug w/ the zombie process left over...). Now he attempts to run the .exe again. THis time the app does not appear on the desktop. All we see is the app in the Task Bar. Click on the task bar and nothing happens (well there is an animated "flash" going from the task bar to the upper lefthand corner of the screen, but other than that nothing happens). We can't get the app to appear on the desktop so that we can actually use it. Right-click and select "Restore" Still nothing.
Basically, now after the first run, we cannot use the app AT ALL. We close it, I recompile w/o the Task Bar stuff set, and we are back to exiting the app and then having to go into Task Manager and killing the zombie process by hand. It sucks, makes it look bad, but at least it works and we can actually use the app.
This has been here since at least 3.0 (the first version of DXPro that I had.
I don't see anything anywhere about a new release of DXPro, or anything about a fix or workaround or anything, so what gives?
Thanks,
Brain21
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