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Problems terminating HTA script

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pce0

pce0

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Jan 27, 2004
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Hi all,

What is the correct way to cleanly terminate an HTA application/script?

I am using self.close however when doing so in the script below I get an access deined error when rerunning the HTA , I have noticed this only happens with the window.resizeto method (i.e. if this line is removed the error does not occur) - any ideas ?

<html>
<head>
<script language="vbscript">

sub Window_onLoad
window.resizeTo 800,600
end sub

</script>
</head>
<body>
<button STYLE="position:absolute;left:10px;top:500px">Launch Script</button><br />
<button STYLE="position:absolute;left:320px;top:500px" onclick='self.close'>Quit</button><br />
</body>
</html>
 
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I had lots of problems with that. Try it this way
Code: 
<html>
<head>
<script language="vbscript">
resizeTo 800,600
' Do not add anything else here: it misbehaves sometimes
</script>
<script language="vbscript">
sub Quit_onClick
   Self.Close
   ' or Window.Close
   '    Window.Parent.Close ' You may or may not need this
end sub
</script>
</head>
...

<button STYLE="..." name="Quit">Quit</button>
You can have other scripts after that but just make sure that the resize is the first thing otherwise there is a lot of flashing.

If you specify a name, then just declare an onClick method with the name_ prefix and it will automatically go there.

I don't know the difference between having it inline in HTML and calling an _onclick routine. I haven't gotten crashes since I started using routines so I've just stuck with it.
 
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Thankyou for your reply, unfortantley this has not resolved the error :-(

I still get an access denied error referencing the line of the resizeto code.
 
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In the hesd section, add an empty tag of hta:application. This tag can take more setting in the form of its attributes, but here you do not have worried about it at the moment.
[tt] <hta:application />[/tt]
 
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Tried adding the <HTA:Applicaion> tag but still getting the access denied error...

What is happening is that the script runs, and terminates ok with the self.close, but the access deined error then occurs when I rerun the script.?
 
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Are you reasoning according to the script shown or are you taking things for granted that we see through the screen?
 
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sorry but I have no idea what you mean by this comment!
 
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>when I rerun the script
Script means the whole hta, I suppose?
 
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beg your pardon, yes by 'script' I guess I actually mean the HTA application
 
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What is the button Launch script for? Is it simplified as such or there are really something associated with it? The problem is I cannot reproduce the problem. As it is a simple script, I guess I am not alone.
 
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Yes this is just a cut-down version of the full script. Maybe I have an 'environmental' issue on my test machine then!

Thanks for trying.
 
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I'm pretty sure there is no [tt]self[/tt] in VBScript. I think [tt]Me[/tt] is the object you'd want, but I don't see it helping here anyway.

There is a good chance that by using "Javascript event binding" (your "inline" event binding) you're actually defaulting to JScript there and probably have a syntax error.

You might want:

[tt]onclick='self.close()'[/tt]

... but why load both script engines? And why try to "close" the button? More likely:

[tt]onclick='VBScript:window.close'[/tt]


In [tt]window_onload[/tt] I use [tt]resizeTo[/tt] all the time. I don't see a problem with yours.
 
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I don't use any VBScript but I close all my HTAs with window.close() with JavaScript... Works fine.

- Lowet

[gray]Why can't all browsers parse pages the same way? It should be the Web designer who decides how to display the content, not the browser![/gray]
 
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Or, include the hta:application attributes...

Code: 
<hta:application
	applicationname="my.hta"	
	border="thick"
	borderstyle="normal"
	caption="true"
	contextmenu="false"
	icon="c:/program files/Microsoft Office/OFFICE11/refbarh.ico"
	maximizebutton="false"
	minimizebutton="false"
	navigable="false"
	scroll="false"
	selection="false"
	showintaskbar="true"
	singleinstance="true"
	sysmenu="true"
	version="1.0"
	windowstate="normal"
>

description in the <head> of your page. This code is just a subset of the attributes.

Take a look at




strebor
 
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Hmm. strebor, what does this have to do with closing the HTA?

- Lowet

[gray]Why can't all browsers parse pages the same way? It should be the Web designer who decides how to display the content, not the browser![/gray]
 
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