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jamestr · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 96 Location: Connecticut USA

I was testing 1.0.10 under winme
and noticed the following:

selecting 'reload script' from the tray icon, starts a New instance of ahk, and the old instance seems to hang.

selecting exit from the try icon causes the tray icon to disappear, but the ahk instance seems to hang.

wintop.exe indicated i had 5 instances of ahk running after a few exits and reloads.

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10467

Does this happen with all scripts or just one in particular? It doesn't happen on Win98se and since Me is so similar to 98, it's a bit baffling.

If anyone else has WinME, perhaps you can test the Reload and Exit menu items in the tray to see if this is a single-computer issue or something more widespread.

jamestr · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 96 Location: Connecticut USA

Ah ha!

SoundPlay, seems to be the culprit.

if i play a sound and then do a trayicon reload, the original instance hangs.

if i dont play the sound its ok.

+q::
send zzzzzyyyyyy
SoundPlay, e:\awav\.short.wav
return

^q::
send 3333333344444
SoundPlay, e:\awav\.boing.wav
return

Larrydalooza · Guest

I think I had to add some clean up for SoundPlay in AutoIt3 in the "exit cleanup" function. There is an open handle that needs closing. It is a call to mciExecString or some crap. Lar.

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10467

Thanks both of you for the info. I should be able to resolve this now.

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10467

I think it only hangs under Win9x, so I couldn't test it out on my system. If you get a chance, maybe re-download the latest version (which has the fix) and see if the problem is gone.

http://www.autohotkey.com/download/

Thanks,
Chris

jamestr · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 96 Location: Connecticut USA

the version i d/l today has a 5/14 mod date.

problem still is the previous instance hangs after playing sound and performing a reload.

maybe hang isnt the right word, wintop shows it using 30% of cpu.

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10467

You must have gotten it before the update. The mod date should be today (5/20) on all the major files in the release.

jamestr · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 96 Location: Connecticut USA

This script now runs fine, under winme. Thanks for the cure!

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10467

Thanks for verifying it, and thanks to Larry for pointing out the exact trouble spot.