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PMView Pro Forums _ PMView - OS/2 Technical Support _ PMView keeps on keeping on!<g> - PM View remains in memory after close

Posted by: John Angelico Apr 16 2003, 03:28 AM

Hi Peter and all in the forum. I'm a very happy steady user of PM-Viewlatest version 2.32 on my eCS system

However, I notice that after I finish with the last graphic file, closing PM-View doesn't actually remove it from memory. I use Watch Cat to kill stuck processes - usually Netscape. and that's how I saw it there. I have also recently noticed that PM-View sometimes even prevents my system from shutting down.

Hope this is clear enough to identify a cause and see about a fix. I don't mind it staying in memory, if that helsp speed up later uses of teh program, but I hope it can be politely told to shut down by the system, rather than having me rudely shout at it via Watch Cat. ::

Best regards
John
Co-Convener, OS/2 SIG
Melbourne PC User Group
Melbourne VIC AUSTRALIA

Posted by: Peter Apr 17 2003, 09:16 AM

Hi John,

This is a well-known problem caused by NewView. Deinstall NewView and everything should work fine. (I beleive that the latest version of NewView available should solve the problem, but I haven't verified it).

Thanks,

Posted by: Talldad May 13 2003, 08:58 AM

Thanks for the clear info, Peter.

I take it that PMView's help thread get's stuck because of NewView's own last thread problem?

I must tackle Aaron at NewView.

Posted by: Peter May 13 2003, 09:03 AM

No, it's because the IBM Open Class library mistakes one of the windows created by Newview for being a Primary Window due to its parent/owner configuration. OCL does not exit its message processing loop until all primary windows are closed.

Thanks,

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