Ticket #5280 (closed: fixed)

Opened 8 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

Check Windows Is Closed BEFORE Install

Reported by: Owen Arnold Owned by: Owen Arnold
Priority: minor Milestone: Release 2.2
Component: Mantid Keywords:
Cc: Blocked By:
Blocking: Tester: Martyn Gigg

Description

Users can start the installer while Mantid is open and running.

We should try and prevent this.

Change History

comment:1 Changed 8 years ago by Owen Arnold

This looks to have some useful options

​http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Check_whether_your_application_is_running

comment:2 Changed 8 years ago by Owen Arnold

refs #5280. Checks tasklist for MantidPlot.

Unfortunately this is yet another modification to the NSIS template, but theres not other way to get this done with the current CMAKE version 2.8.1

Changeset: 108ee21208e0de65292a4e685c77d8bbd38dcd66

comment:3 Changed 8 years ago by Owen Arnold

refs #5280. Make the output message more explicit

Changeset: 4892fbd510a74c6a59b2b465cd47a94ad1a572c3

comment:4 Changed 8 years ago by Owen Arnold

  • Status changed from new to accepted

comment:5 Changed 8 years ago by Owen Arnold

  • Status changed from accepted to verify
  • Resolution set to fixed

Tester: Run mantid plot then try to run the new windows installer. Should detect that MantidPlot is running and abort the install.

comment:6 Changed 8 years ago by Martyn Gigg

  • Status changed from verify to verifying
  • Tester set to Martyn Gigg

comment:7 Changed 8 years ago by Martyn Gigg

  • Status changed from verifying to closed

comment:8 Changed 5 years ago by Stuart Campbell

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​6126

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