close process

Type

command

Summary

Closes a process that was started with the open process command.

Syntax

close process <processName>

Description

Use the close process command to tell a process to exit after you've finished using it.

On Unix and Windows systems, close process closes the process's standard input. The process then finishes processing whatever data remains, and exits when done. On Mac OS|Mac OS systems, the close process command has no effect; you can use the kill command instead to quit an application that LiveCode launched.

The process takes a short time to exit after you issue the close process command. Since two processes cannot have the same name, you need to wait for a process to exit before opening a new process with the same name. To reopen the same process after closing it, use the wait command to delay until the process has finished exiting:

    close process myProcess
    wait until myProcess is not among the lines of the openProcesses
    open process myProcess

If a process was opened with the access mode neither, it exits automatically when it finishes running, and does not need to be closed.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
processName		The file path to the process you opened with the open process command.

Examples

close process "/bin/sh"

close process tOpenProgram

Related

control structure: exit

function: openProcesses

glossary: command, standard input, Mac OS, process

command: wait, kill, read from process, quit, open process

Compatibility and Support

Introduced

LiveCode 1.0

OS

mac

windows

linux

Platforms

desktop

server