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Old 05-26-2011, 07:12 PM
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How to wait until process exit if process number is not known

How would I configure the wait until process exit step to wait until a process has exited, if I don't know the process ID number, but only the name (winword.exe)? It appears as if this wait condition only takes a process ID as argument.

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Old 05-26-2011, 11:05 PM
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Over here I found something that might work.

I used it like this to close an application....

Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
If objShell.AppActivate("Document - WordPad") Then
objShell.SendKeys "%%{F4}" ' send Alt+F4 (Exit for Wordpad
Builder.LogMessage "- Found WordPad open on that document: Document and closed it! --"
Else
Builder.LogMessage "- WordPad is not currently open on that document: Document! --"
End If

But I think you can simply do a loop around the AppActivate call untiil the app is no longer active in a subsequent script step.

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Old 05-27-2011, 07:44 AM
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[vbld_FindProcess("winword")]

http://www.kinook.com/VisBuildPro/Ma...scriptmisc.htm
http://www.kinook.com/VisBuildPro/Ma...xpressions.htm
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Old 05-27-2011, 09:48 AM
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How would I use that vbld_FindProcess function? I tried putting that into the wait step in the Process ID(s)" area and it failed, and when trying to put it into a vbscript piece as follows:

id = vbld_FindProcess("WINWORD")

or

id = vbld_FindProcess("WINWORD.EXE")

both gave a type mismatch error.

If I put it in brackets (i.e. id=[vbld_FindProcess("WINWORD")] it gave a null return, even though I have winword running. (same if I put it as WINWORD.EXE)
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Old 05-27-2011, 10:19 AM
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Which version of Visual Build are you running? Which version+SP of Windows and Word? When starting Word 2003, building the attached project in v7.7a on Win7, then closing Word, I get:

5/27/2011 9:17:05 AM: -------------------- Starting Build: 'WaitWord.bld' --------------------
5/27/2011 9:17:05 AM: Building project step 1 - Project steps...
5/27/2011 9:17:05 AM: Building project step 2 - Wait...
Waiting for process(es) '3908' to exit...
All processes completed
5/27/2011 9:17:08 AM: Build successfully completed (elapsed = 00:00:03).
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File Type: bld WaitWord.bld (462 Bytes, 821 views)
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Old 05-27-2011, 10:28 AM
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Oops, I was trying it on a machine I hadn't upgraded to a recent VBPro. Works fine when running a recent version. Sorry about that.

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