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<body class='hmmessage'>Start /wait is always doing the same thing, it is always waiting. But what it is launching is deciding to exit right away, or not.<br><br>More later..<br> <br><br><hr>From: rcolebur@SCIRES.COM<br>To: jay.krell@cornell.edu; m3devel@elegosoft.com<br>Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:06:36 -0500<br>Subject: RE: [M3devel] more info on ticket 1082 wrt start /wait<br><br>
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<p class=ecxMsoNormal><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D">Jay et al:</span></p>
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<p class=ecxMsoNormal><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D">Well I’ve done more testing.</span></p>
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<p class=ecxMsoNormal><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D">Jay you are right about the multiple instances. For both IE8 and FireFox on Vista, if you already have an instance running and use “START /WAIT” to get another
instance, the second instance starts up (a new window) and the “START /WAIT” immediately returns rather than waiting. Conversely, if this is the first instance of IE8 or FireFox, then “START /WAIT” does indeed wait for the browser to close before it returns.
I’ll have to get to an XP machine to confirm if this same behavior occurs there as well.</span></p>
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<p class=ecxMsoNormal><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D">If you go back to IE6, it didn’t have Tabbed windows, so maybe that is why “START /WAIT” always waited.</span></p>
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<p class=ecxMsoNormal><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D">I don’t have an immediate fix for this behavior since the original design used the “START /WAIT” functionality on Windows. On POSIX, it doesn’t. The quick
fix I mentioned earlier is probably the best thing to do now. I could perhaps modify the sources to change the default CFG to “return FALSE” on Windows instead of “return TRUE”, thereby implementing the quick fix for everyone. I’ll check into this shortly.</span></p>
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<p class=ecxMsoNormal><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D">As for your comments about cm3ide not being “great” that is your opinion; however, back in the day when reactor (aka cm3ide) first came out, this was indeed
leading edge stuff. The idea that you could tweak your IDE by making simple HTML file changes I think was pretty novel at the time, and the thinking from the CMass Inc folks was that as the browser improved, your IDE would improve automatically (e.g. multiple
tabs was a subsequent browser improvement).</span></p>
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<p class=ecxMsoNormal><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D">Even though you may not consider CM3IDE to be a great IDE, I do find that it is extremely helpful during development when browsing source code and looking
up interface specs. With just a hyperlink, you can quickly find what you are looking for. It also has a lot of built-in links to reference material and coding examples.</span></p>
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<p class=ecxMsoNormal><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D">Note that cm3ide hasn’t really changed much at all since reactor first debuted. Now that we finally have the open-source release, we can modify it to make
it better.</span></p>
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<p class=ecxMsoNormal><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D">Regards,</span></p>
<p class=ecxMsoNormal><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D">Randy</span></p>
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<p class=ecxMsoNormal style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> jayk123@hotmail.com [mailto:jayk123@hotmail.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jay K<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:43 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Coleburn, Randy; m3devel<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [M3devel] more info on ticket 1082 wrt start /wait</span></p>
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<p class=ecxMsoNormal style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif'">What if you just simply:<br>
"start http://localhost:whateverport" <br>
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Personally I find cm3ide/reactor to be ..not great.<br>
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The behavior you are noticing is that the web browser might decide there is another adequate instance of it running and ask it to display something and exit.<br>
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You will likely find different behavior depending on if an instance of the browser is already running.<br>
There might also be a command line option to control this.<br>
But I think your best best is just not to use /wait.<br>
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- Jay<br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif'">From: rcolebur@SCIRES.COM<br>
To: m3devel@elegosoft.com<br>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:38:34 -0500<br>
Subject: [M3devel] more info on ticket 1082 wrt start /wait</span></p>
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<p class=ecxMsoNormal style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif'">Ok, I’ve done a bit more testing.</span></p>
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<p class=ecxMsoNormal style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif'">I don’t think the problem has to do with “START /WAIT …” but rather it seems to be a difference in Windows Internet Explorer.</span></p>
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<p class=ecxMsoNormal style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif'">When your browser is set to FIREFOX instead of IE, the “START /WAIT firefox.exe” command works fine, so you can keep the “return TRUE” in the CM3_IDE.cfg
file.</span></p>
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<p class=ecxMsoNormal style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif'">But, when using IE8, the “START /WAIT iexplorer.exe” command does not wait for IE8 to terminate and returns immediately, thus the “return TRUE”
in CM3_IDE.cfg must be changed to “return FALSE” to prevent immediate shutdown of CM3IDE.</span></p>
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<p class=ecxMsoNormal style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif'">If I go to a Windows 2000 box running IE6, the “START /WAIT” again seems to wait for IE to terminate. I haven’t tested yet with IE7 to see if
it behaves correctly or not.</span></p>
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<p class=ecxMsoNormal style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif'">So for now, folks may want to use FireFox instead of IE with CM3IDE.</span></p>
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<p class=ecxMsoNormal style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif'">Regards,</span></p>
<p class=ecxMsoNormal style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif'">Randy</span></p>
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