Re: Calendar causes app to stay resident
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:07 am
Hi Roger, sorry for the delay in responding, we have a lot of balls in the air at the moment.
Most of the computers in our office are running express build 254. However, I just updated mine to 255 to check, and it is still staying resident. It also doesn't seem to matter what sort of operating system it is - I have tested on a 64 bit windows 7, 32 bit windows 7, and windows XP computer; in all cases the program didn't close properly.
To clarify, the app doesn't stay visible in the Applications tab of the task manager. It's only if you go to the Processes tab that you will find a Calendar.exe. It's a pretty low memory app, so it is easily buried in the list of other apps.
After doing some research online, I'm thinking this is likely actually a codejock issue, and not something to do with xbase or Express at all. Other people using the codejock calendar in other programming languages have reported similar issues. However, they seem to be pretty scarce, so I don't know if that's just because not many people are using it, or if there's just something specific that we're doing wrong. The one thread we found on the subject seemed to indicate that it was only happening on 64 bit computers, but my own testing doesn't seem to match that.
I'm sure a possible fix would be to change how we exit our program, but that would require rewriting our entire program flow, which I'm not sure is worth it just for a pretty calendar.
Thanks.
Most of the computers in our office are running express build 254. However, I just updated mine to 255 to check, and it is still staying resident. It also doesn't seem to matter what sort of operating system it is - I have tested on a 64 bit windows 7, 32 bit windows 7, and windows XP computer; in all cases the program didn't close properly.
To clarify, the app doesn't stay visible in the Applications tab of the task manager. It's only if you go to the Processes tab that you will find a Calendar.exe. It's a pretty low memory app, so it is easily buried in the list of other apps.
After doing some research online, I'm thinking this is likely actually a codejock issue, and not something to do with xbase or Express at all. Other people using the codejock calendar in other programming languages have reported similar issues. However, they seem to be pretty scarce, so I don't know if that's just because not many people are using it, or if there's just something specific that we're doing wrong. The one thread we found on the subject seemed to indicate that it was only happening on 64 bit computers, but my own testing doesn't seem to match that.
I'm sure a possible fix would be to change how we exit our program, but that would require rewriting our entire program flow, which I'm not sure is worth it just for a pretty calendar.
Thanks.