Can anyone point me at a code snipet/routine that will allow me to automatically close/end a running vb app. I need to be able to notify all users that are currently running the app via a pop-up and then allow a couple of minutes for users to close at which time any stragglers get dumped.  (must be able to accomodate minimized window as well so as not to trash anyones work...)

Thanks...

I'm assuming that you mean: you have a server vb app with client vb apps running, you wish to terminate the server vb app, with notifying the client users of the closure.

Based on that, I can think of two things offhand:
hardest:
1) Winsock control for direct server-pc connections (of course not all places will allow this, and you'd either need a table of all connected users [or text file],or  VB COM app also [which I normally don't do].
easiest
2) Put timers in the client apps, have a central db with a 2 tables, onethat only has one value ("closing", "not closing"), second with all current users (with a "close notified"). When you go to terminate the main vb app, change the "closing" table's value. Wait x minutes or until all values in the "connected" table say "notified".

If this would help, I can give more detailed info, but both are fairly extensive in length.

The second approach sounds like it will do what I need.  I'll give it a shot...

Thanks for your input.

Something else that may be of use.

If there's a possibility that there won't be any clients open, have the server program check for any clients first; if none exist, then close immediately.

But if you just notify the clients, and not give them "input" as to the closing, then it might not even matter (although it could save a few minutes in wait time - depending on # of clients and other factors).

[Edited by admin on 14-05-2002 at 01:14 PM GMT]