ProcessClose - errors and polling

[bluebearr]

Hey,

I looked around but really couldn't find an answer to my questions on the ProcessClose function.

First, are there any situations in which ProcessClose will display an error message, or, if it fails, does it always fail silently?

Second, the documentation for this function has this line in it:

The process is polled approximately every 250 milliseconds.

What does this mean? How does polling affect the operation of the function? Does this mean that it takes a minimum of 250 milliseconds to close a process?

Thanks for your help.

BlueBearr

[PsaltyDS]

Hey,

I looked around but really couldn't find an answer to my questions on the ProcessClose function.

First, are there any situations in which ProcessClose will display an error message, or, if it fails, does it always fail silently?

Second, the documentation for this function has this line in it:

What does this mean? How does polling affect the operation of the function? Does this mean that it takes a minimum of 250 milliseconds to close a process?

Thanks for your help.

BlueBearr

That might be a copy/paste error in the help file. It would apply to ProcessWaitClose(), not ProcessClose().

Try this for testing how long ProcessClose() takes:

$PID = Run("notepad.exe")
WinWait("Untitled - Notepad")
ConsoleWrite("PID = " & $PID)
$iTimer = TimerInit()
If $PID Then ProcessClose($PID)
$iTimer = TimerDiff($iTimer)
ConsoleWrite("Time = " & Round($iTimer, 0) & "ms" & @LF)

[bluebearr]

It took 2 ms to close notepad, so I guess that the polling doesn't set a minimum time. I also thought that it looked like it got copied from ProcessWaitClose but didn't know if anyone could confirm this.

Bluebearr