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Markham:
The error on close "release mutex" doesn't Windows to shutdown automatically. :(
-Rigel (October 26, 2009, 01:05 AM)
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That's a side-effect of using a mutex, I'm afraid.
Circle Dock creates a mutex (which is a unique identifier) when it loads and that mutex remains active all the time Circle Dock is running - visible or not. Circle Dock releases the mutex when it unloads itself from memory. The mutex is there as a marker for its installer and uninstaller programs which will prompt you to quit Circle Dock before installing a new version, or uninstalling the version you have. The alternative would be to force users to reboot their PC to complete the installation / unistallation which may not be acceptable.
Mark
Rigel:
Ok, if I quit a second instances of CD the mutex is locked on first CD or, if first CD is close, the second don't find the mutex, it's right? But when the error message come out there are three choices, abort,ignore, and an other. Markham, if I click abort or ignore, can you force exit?
Markham:
Ok, if I quit a second instances of CD the mutex is locked on first CD or, if first CD is close, the second don't find the mutex, it's right? But when the error message come out there are three choices, abort,ignore, and an other. Markham, if I click abort or ignore, can you force exit?
-Rigel (October 26, 2009, 07:46 AM)
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I'm not entirely certain what you're asking for. The error dialog you see when Windows closes is produced (and owned) by the Explorer Shell, not Circle Dock. Therefore Circle Dock doesn't know which option you chose to dismiss that dialog and therefore can not act in the way you're asking for.
However, I have improved the code that handles Mutexes and single instance handling and this means that I'm using the Mutex in a slightly different manner. One of the benefits of this is that you should not get that error message from Windows :).
Mark
Rigel:
Great Markham, you are the best :D
joiwind:
Is anyone else experiencing this : with v0.9.2.7 it seems to be impossible to add new dock folders, or am I missing something ?
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