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Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx

From Dave Higton <davehigton@dsl.pipex.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Subject Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx
Date 2011-10-01 22:44 +0100
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Message-ID <2c338b1b52.davehigton@dsl.pipex.com> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <068f781952.martin@bach.planiverse.com> <4e853be3$0$831$e4fe514c@dreader28.news.xs4all.nl> <5fdd061b52.davehigton@dsl.pipex.com> <c6107e1b52.davehigton@dsl.pipex.com> <mpro.lsekib00pcmxs01jl.news@stevefryatt.org.uk>

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In message <mpro.lsekib00pcmxs01jl.news@stevefryatt.org.uk>
          Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote:

> On 1 Oct, Dave Higton wrote in message
>     <c6107e1b52.davehigton@dsl.pipex.com>:
> 
> > It's a shame that it works like it does.  I'd have thought that what I
> > want to do is the simplest and most obvious thing that anybody would want
> > to use a taskwindow for: to run a command line app in a window /and/ to
> > get notification when it finishes.
> 
> I've not read the whole thread, so I may have missed some nuance of what
> you're trying to do, but surely you can do what PrintPDF does?  That simply
> records the task handle of the GhostScript task that it spawns in a task
> window and then watches Message_TaskCloseDown for the same task handle,
> indicating that the process has ended.

Brilliant, Steve.  Thanks for pointing out what should have been
bleeding obvious to me.

It works now.

Dave

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TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx Dave Higton <davehigton@dsl.pipex.com> - 2011-09-27 21:41 +0100
  Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2011-09-27 23:08 +0200
    Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx Dave Higton <davehigton@dsl.pipex.com> - 2011-09-27 22:33 +0100
    Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx "Ste (news)" <steve@revi11.plus.com> - 2011-09-28 15:27 +0100
      Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2011-09-28 17:16 +0200
        Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx "Ste (news)" <steve@revi11.plus.com> - 2011-09-28 19:52 +0100
          Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx Erik G <erikg@noname.invalid> - 2011-09-30 06:02 +0200
        Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2011-10-02 16:13 +0100
          Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx Erik G <erikg@noname.invalid> - 2011-10-13 11:23 +0200
            Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx Alex Macfarlane Smith <nospam@archifishal.co.uk> - 2011-10-13 21:08 +0100
            Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2011-10-15 12:13 +0100
              Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx Erik G <erikg@noname.invalid> - 2011-10-18 16:25 +0200
                Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2011-10-19 10:45 +0200
    Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx Erik G <erikg@noname.invalid> - 2011-09-30 05:47 +0200
      Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx Dave Higton <davehigton@dsl.pipex.com> - 2011-09-30 22:38 +0100
        Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-10-01 05:49 +0200
          Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2011-10-01 13:19 +0200
        Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx Dave Higton <davehigton@dsl.pipex.com> - 2011-10-01 20:20 +0100
          Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2011-10-01 20:51 +0100
            Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-10-01 22:46 +0200
              Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2011-10-01 22:07 +0100
              Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2011-10-01 22:04 +0100
              Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx Dave Higton <davehigton@dsl.pipex.com> - 2011-10-01 22:45 +0100
            Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx Dave Higton <davehigton@dsl.pipex.com> - 2011-10-01 22:44 +0100
          Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx Erik G <erikg@noname.invalid> - 2011-10-18 15:23 +0200
            Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx Erik G <erikg@noname.invalid> - 2011-10-18 15:55 +0200
            Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2011-10-19 20:27 +0100
  Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-10-14 07:53 +0200
    Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx Gavin Wraith <gavin@wra1th.plus.com> - 2011-10-14 11:43 +0100
      Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2011-10-14 13:26 +0200
        Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-10-15 20:37 +0200
    Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx druck <news@druck.freeuk.com> - 2011-10-16 18:26 +0100
      Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx Stewart Brodie <stewart.brodie@ntlworld.com> - 2011-10-16 23:28 +0100
        Re: TaskWindow -txt &xxxxxxxx druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2011-10-19 20:30 +0100

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