On 7/22/14 2:49 PM, "Michael A. Labriola" <labri...@digitalprimates.net>
wrote:

>>As far as I understood the problem. Whenever the build was hanging, I
>>could see a Flashplayer instance complaining about a timeout of 15
>>seconds having expired and if the user whiches to continue or cancel,
>>hereby blocking the instance and the associated test.
>
>I never finished it but we were playing with a watch dog for FlexUnit so
>that the test runner sent a heartbeat message back to a monitoring
>instance (the java process that launched it) every (n) frames. Then we
>could configure the amount of time it was okay to go without the
>heartbeat. The difference being we would wait so long as Flash Player was
>still well enough to send its heartbeat. When it ceased, we would kill it.
In the mustella code is a .c source code for KillWin, something I wrote
for Windows that used to be able to kill off the player.  I haven't tried
on recent players.  But I haven't seen stuck player on the builds machine.
 We're having different issues there.

-Alex

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