Non Responsive Application after update complete (General questions)

by Rik Arpin, Wednesday, April 02, 2008, 09:22 (6079 days ago)

Due to the architecture of our application, we are using wodAppUpdate in an external application to update the required files in our application. This runs the update process and then starts the application (which is comprised of several applications running side by side).

We are experiencing a weird issue where this update application completes the update but then continues running instead of closing down. It eventually goes to a non-responsive state and closes shortly afterwards. This results in the application lingering around after it has done all its tasks in a state where we canot control it.

We are using blocking to control the flow of the update and as yet we have not managed to get it to restart iteself, irrespective of settings. We have also trying using non-blocking, with the same results. We have also tried forcing a restart, which we have not been able to get working.

The application is coded in VB6 - are there any known issues? We have implemented a simple application as a test to see if we could get around these problems but each one has the same problem. We have implemented using both event and notification interfaces with the same results.

The test application we have literally runs the wodAppUpdate methods so we feel that the application 'hang' at the end can only be attributed to wodAppUpdate.

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

Rik Arpino
Print Control Software