Plugin "cleanup" call on exit?

[JohnInSJ]

I've written a plugin that creates a background thread. It's causing a hangup (it seems) when the pvr app is exited - the gui goes away but I have to kill the process manually. I am assuming its hanging up waiting for my background thread to finish.

Is there something I should be looking for to know that the pvr app is exiting so I can kill my background thread? Is there a GBPVR.Public.EventTypes.??? that is sent? Are you tired of my questions yet?

Yes, this is that activity monitoring plugin I've written, that I've not released since it is an experiment and (clearly, see above!) still has issues

[sub]

Is there something I should be looking for to know that the pvr app is exiting so I can kill my background thread? Is there a GBPVR.Public.EventTypes.??? that is sent? Are you tired of my questions yet?

To be honest, I cant remember. I'm separated from my code for a few days, so cant check at the moment.

[liteswap]

I've written something similar in AutoIt, to cope with the fact that, sometimes after standby, the PVRX2 UI (I'm using EVR on XP SP3 here) disappears although the process is still running. It's not very repeatable as it only happens about 75% of the time.

Hence the app. It checks for the existence of a Windows handle. If it doesn't find one but the process is still running, it kills the process and restarts.

If anyone else would find this useful, please say. However, I plan to incorporate the code into StartPVRX2, my app that keeps PVRX2 in focus, and restarts it if it crashes.

[JohnInSJ]

To be honest, I cant remember. I'm separated from my code for a few days, so cant check at the moment.

No rush sub - just wondering, mostly. I'll see if there's anything I'm supposed to be doing in general that I'm not in the meantime.

[whurlston]

To be honest, I cant remember. I'm separated from my code for a few days, so cant check at the moment.

I don't think there is unless you snuck it in. You were looking into adding this for me for Netflix a couple of releases ago, but since there was no adverse effect to just killing the download thread, setting isBackground=true on the thread was all I ended up needing. Maybe that's an option for John?

[JohnInSJ]

Wow.. bingo!

A thread is either a background thread or a foreground thread. Background threads are identical to foreground threads, except that background threads do not prevent a process from terminating.

Lemme try that

Edit: Yep, bingo, it works great. Thanks whurlston, I did not know that little tidbit!

[whurlston]

Wow.. bingo!



Lemme try that

Edit: Yep, bingo, it works great. Thanks whurlston, I did not know that little tidbit!

I didn't either until sub told me about it.