Closing Modal Forms

[Galstaph]

I am currently writing a script that will close an open application. There are multiple modal forms that this application can pop open (about 60) and if any of the forms are popped then my close script fails to close the application. What I am looking for is help in determining a relationship between the Parent window and the child modal form, and how I would go about to select the modal (child) form to close it. Thanks in advance for your help.

[Mecrazycoder]

I am currently writing a script that will close an open application. There are multiple modal forms that this application can pop open (about 60) and if any of the forms are popped then my close script fails to close the application. What I am looking for is help in determining a relationship between the Parent window and the child modal form, and how I would go about to select the modal (child) form to close it. Thanks in advance for your help.

I am not sure, but did you try ProcessClose()

[Galstaph]

Yes, that would work, but I would like to exit the application somewhat gracefully and just closing the application with a kill could corrupt the database.

[Mecrazycoder]

Yes, that would work, but I would like to exit the application somewhat gracefully and just closing the application with a kill could corrupt the database.

Oh...then you want to close all the child windows and finally parent window. Is my understanding right? Edited September 28, 2009 by Mecrazycoder

[Galstaph]

Oh...then you want to close all the child windows and finally parent window. Is my understanding right?

Correct.

[Mecrazycoder]

Correct.

Can you please look into WinExists,WinKill in help file.

[Galstaph]

Yes, those work quite well, but as I said, there are some 60 forms to check for that are modally displayed for the WinExists. WinKill would work, but again I do not want to just terminate the process. Is there some way to check through the displayed forms and strike !{F4} on each of the ones that are children of an existing application?

[Melba23]

Galstaph ,

I have used something like this before to kill multiple children before ending the main app gracefully. It might help:

; get process ID and main window handle for the app
$iApp_Process = WinGetProcess("The_App_You_Are_Using")
$iApp_Window = WinGetHandle("The_App_You_Are_Using") 

; List all windows
$aWinList = WinList()

; See which windows are linked to your process
For $i = 1 To $aWinList[0][0]
    $iProcess = WinGetProcess($aWinList[$i][1])
    If $iProcess = $iMy_Process Then
            ; Kill all except the main window
        If $aWinList[$i][0] <> $iApp_Window Then WinKill($aWinList[$i][0])
    EndIf
Next

; Close app normally

I did have problems with apps that opened a lot of windows on start - the app crashed when any of them were closed. The solution was to run an earlier WinList and then check against all of those found when killing extras at the end. (I hope that is clear )

M23

[Galstaph]

Galstaph ,

I have used something like this before to kill multiple children before ending the main app gracefully. It might help:

; get process ID and main window handle for the app
$iApp_Process = WinGetProcess("The_App_You_Are_Using")
$iApp_Window = WinGetHandle("The_App_You_Are_Using") 

; List all windows
$aWinList = WinList()

; See which windows are linked to your process
For $i = 1 To $aWinList[0][0]
    $iProcess = WinGetProcess($aWinList[$i][1])
    If $iProcess = $iMy_Process Then
            ; Kill all except the main window
        If $aWinList[$i][0] <> $iApp_Window Then WinKill($aWinList[$i][0])
    EndIf
Next

; Close app normally

I did have problems with apps that opened a lot of windows on start - the app crashed when any of them were closed. The solution was to run an earlier WinList and then check against all of those found when killing extras at the end. (I hope that is clear )

M23

Thanks for that, it worked wonderfully. That was exactly what I needed.