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Thread: SB10: "Detect Active Application" not working

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    Default SB10: "Detect Active Application" not working

    Having an issue with setups not able to detect that an application is
    running. Then, because of this, it proceeds with an update and tells
    the user they have to re-start.

    NOTE: This detection seems to WORK FINE in a VM.

    If the user has the software on a non-VM, then it gives a 603 (fail)
    instead of 1 (success).

    If anybody is willing to check this out and/or tell me what I'm doing
    wrong, I'd really appreciate it.

    This zip file should have all you need to run "junk2" then run
    "JunkIsRunning" to see if junk2 is running.

    If it's detected, you should get a "1". If it fails, it's a 603.

    I turned off requireAdmin because it was a PITB when testing and not
    needed.

    https://jssoftware.com/SBTest/junk2.zip

    Jeff Slarve
    www.github.com/jslarve

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    Default Re: SB10: "Detect Active Application" not working

    Dunno, Jeff.

    I tried on three laptops (two Win 10 and one Win 8.1). The two Win 10
    machines do have VMware installed, but I ran your stuff on the host.
    The Win 8.1 has no VMware.

    All three return 1 if junk2 is running, 603 if not.

    Are your users running on single-user computers (not RDP or any kind
    of shared environment?

    I couldn't make it break. Sorry...

    jf

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    Default Re: SB10: "Detect Active Application" not working

    Thanks Jane. Weird.

    My work machine (brand new Dell with Windows 11) will not detect
    junk2.

    My personal dev machine (5 year old Dell Precision workstation) fails
    too. But a Windows 10 VM finds it just fine.

    Another dev is the one that discovered the VM thing. But I guess
    that's a red herring.


    Jeff Slarve
    www.github.com/jslarve

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    Default Re: SB10: "Detect Active Application" not working

    I think I've discovered the actual issue.

    If I had to guess, I'd say that Friedrich allocated an array of ~250
    DWORDs for use in EnumProcesses. If the name of your desired process
    isn't within those first 250, then it fails.

    Try closing junk2.exe, then opening a bunch of apps until tasklist gets
    more than 250 processes, then open junk2 and try the test app.

    Jeff Slarve

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    Default Re: SB10: "Detect Active Application" not working

    I think you're right, Jeff.

    I opened a gazillion Chrome and Firefox windows and your app returned
    603. Then closed those and it returned 1.

    It would be interesting to build a similar test with Capesoft's
    OddJob.
    I have a watchdog monitoring some web apps. If anything becomes
    unresponsive, Oddjob tries to stop the service in question, then
    searches for and kills any running instances showing in Task Manager.
    Then restarts the service.

    I haven't tried the "250 things" test with it but it's running on a
    normal production server that has a fair bit of stuff going on.

    jf

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    Default Re: SB10: "Detect Active Application" not working

    Hi Jeff,

    I have created a small SetupBuilder 2019 project to start (from within a
    Loop/End) a "dummy" JUNK.EXE Clarion executables 250 times. After that, I
    started one instance of JUNK2.EXE and fired a "Detect Active Application"
    action.

    It returned 603. That means, JUNK2.EXE is not active. But this is WRONG
    because JUNK2.EXE is definitely running!

    Then I compiled the very same project with the internal version of
    SetupBuilder 2023.

    This time it returned 1.

    So it seems to me I already fixed this. Checked my source code history and
    see that I already worked with Capesoft on a similar issue. So it seems to
    be related.

    If you are interested, I can send you a small compiler library to check it
    out.

    Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

    Friedrich

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    Default Re: SB10: "Detect Active Application" not working

    Hi Friedrich -

    I am interested in your library update. Thank you very much.

    Jeff Slarve

  8. #8

    Default Re: SB10: "Detect Active Application" not working

    Hi Jeff,

    did you receive it? I sent it 8 hours ago.

    Friedrich

  9. #9

    Default Re: SB10: "Detect Active Application" not working

    Thanks for the help, Jane

    Jeff Slarve

  10. #10

    Default Re: SB10: "Detect Active Application" not working

    BTW - CreateToolhelp32SnapShot() doesn't require pre-determining how
    many PIDs to accommodate, unlike EnumProcesses.

    Jeff Slarve

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