Hi Jon,
Here's another option: Sending a WM_CLOSE message to any windows app will close it,
normally.
You'll call the SendMessageA function from User32.dll for this. But you'll need a
handle to the windows app for this. This handle can be obtained by calling
FindWindowsA from the same dll and passing the title fo the window.
I have uploaded an example VI which shows this at:
ftp://ftp.ni.com/incoming/quitapp.vi
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Khalid Ansari
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What is the accepted method to terminate an
application started with System Exec if it
doesn't terminate itself ? (from LabVIEW of
course). I am calling System Exec with "Wait for
Completion"=F so that I can do a timeout
polling, and would like to stop the application
after a certain number of seconds or if a
certain file gets too large, especially because
under some error conditions it starts to consume
memory resources quickly.
(Using Windows XP and LabVIEW 6.0.2)
Thanks,
Jon
