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Process.HasExited returns true even though process is running?
I realize this is an old post, but in my quest to find out why my app running the Exited event before the app had even opened I found out something that I though might be useful to people experiencing this problem in the future. When a process is started, it is assigned a PID. … Read more
Android emulator won’t shut down
According to the documentation I found at google, simply closing the emulator window is the correct way to shut the emulator down. To stop an emulator instance, just close the emulator’s window. Source: Starting and Stopping the Emulator
Stopping Excel Macro executution when pressing Esc won’t work
Use CRTL+BREAK to suspend execution at any point. You will be put into break mode and can press F5 to continue the execution or F8 to execute the code step-by-step in the visual debugger. Of course this only works when there is no message box open, so if your VBA code constantly opens message boxes … Read more
How to perform an async operation on exit
You can trap the signals and perform your async task before exiting. Something like this will call terminator() function before exiting (even javascript error in the code): process.on(‘exit’, function () { // Do some cleanup such as close db if (db) { db.close(); } }); // catching signals and do something before exit [‘SIGHUP’, ‘SIGINT’, … Read more
Why not to start a thread in the constructor? How to terminate?
To your first question: Starting a thread in a constructor passing in this escapes this. That means that you are actually giving out a reference to your object before it is fully constructed. The thread will start before your constructor finishes. This can result in all kinds of weird behaviors. To your second question: There … Read more
PHP – exit or return which is better?
Since you are using exit and return within the global scope (not inside a function), then the behavior is almost the same. The difference in this case will appear if your file is called through include() or require(). exit will terminate the program, while return will take the control back to the calling script (where … Read more
How to terminate a Xamarin application?
If you are using Xamarin.Forms create a Dependency Service. Interface public interface ICloseApplication { void closeApplication(); } Android : Using FinishAffinity() won’t restart your activity. It will simply close the application. public class CloseApplication : ICloseApplication { public void closeApplication() { var activity = (Activity)Forms.Context; activity.FinishAffinity(); } } IOS : As already suggested above. public … Read more
SBT stop run without exiting
From sbt version 0.13.5 you can add to your build.sbt cancelable in Global := true It is defined as “Enables (true) or disables (false) the ability to interrupt task execution with CTRL+C.” in the Keys definition If you are using Scala 2.12.7+ you can also cancel the compilation with CTRL+C. Reference https://github.com/scala/scala/pull/6479 There are some … Read more