[wpkg-users] Continue even if not completed.

[Michael MacKay]

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Rainer Meier <r.meier at wpkg.org> wrote:

> Hi Stefan/Michael,
>
>
> On 09.01.2012 19:39, Stefan Pendl wrote:
>
>> Am 09.01.2012 17:30, schrieb Michael MacKay:
>>
>>> I have a frustrating little issue. I have a program that needs to
>>> register a plugin after it is installed. Very easy to do: DtMaxSdk.exe
>>> /register.
>>>
>>> My problem is, it has a little popup saying successful. I can't find any
>>> silent switches, and waiting to hear back from the developer if there is
>>> or could be one. The popup comes after it is installed, but if I
>>> include it in WPKG it hangs waiting for someone to acknowledge. Is
>>> there a way to put a timeout on this in the package.xml and have it just
>>> ignore and continue?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>
>> Commands can have a timeout specified, see http://wpkg.org/Timeouts
>>
>
> If there is no need to wait for the program to finish it's job (or if a
> delay does it) then using "start" might be an option:
>
> @echo off
> start dtmaxsdk.exe /register
> :: optional, wait 10 seconds, then continue
> ping -n 10 localhost
>
>
> This will leave the process running and just continue.
>
> You might even juggle with "taskkill" after some wait timeout to terminate
> the hanging process, but in many cases this is not really an issue, just
> leave it running until next reboot.
>
> br,
> Rainer
>
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Perfect, thanks for the suggestions.  Tried them both and they work
perfect. I think I will put that timeout on more of my packages, and the
batch file one works for some other scripting I am doing as
alternative/backup to wpkg.

Thanks
Mike
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