Re: Fastest Application Shutdown

From: Johnnie Norsworthy (no_at_spam.4me)
Date: 12/05/03 

Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 10:15:26 -0800

"Andrew Jameson" <contact@softspotsoftware.com> wrote in message
news:3fd0c8b2$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> We've had similar problems in the past ... the user is then quite likely
to
> embark on a lot of frantic desktop icon clicking. Network response times
are
> obviously variable but our solution was :

It's the frantic user I want to avoid. :-)

>
> The main 'shelled' application posted a quit message at our launch
> application ... that way we still had a form in front of the user whilst
the
> other app limped into life and we used a gradient scroller to give the
> impression that something was likely to happen ... and we put a ten second
> timeout on the launch application to terminate it should the main
> application not appear ... we use com objects now but the concept remains

I would be happy with the loader closing and a cursor+hourglass appearing.
This is what happens 25% of the time.

-Johnnie