Killing Program [Sort of resolved, anything better?]

[AngelOfDeath69]

I am building a program that has the ability to update itself by checking the current version of itself with an internet appserver, and then opening an OLE automated version of internet explorer in a new window before shutting itself down so the update can proceed.

Unfortunately, the program can't be unloaded because after the forms are all unloaded when control is returned from the Class Module, the forms refuse to close and remain open.

Is there any way to forcibly terminate the app? Thanks for the help.

[Q_Me]

Well you can do it the noncomplicated way.

Private Sub Form_Unload() '<--It is an event yes, but it does not do its "cause" very well.
Unload Me
Unload frmYourForm1
Unload frmYourForm2
'Unload Blah Blah.
 
End Sub

[AngelOfDeath69]

Well, interesting (and predictable) suggestion, but I forgot to mention that after asking the forms to unload they reload themselves.

This generally means that there is no way to do use the unload method on all the forms to quit the program. Sorry, I forgot to mention that!

[Q_Me]

Meaning you wanted the forms to reload themselves?

[AngelOfDeath69]

No, I don't want the blasted forms to reload. I want the program to die so I can overwrite it...

[Armbruster]

I 'm not really sure I understand . . .

but you need to terminate your class before you unload your forms

'you created your class instance as some point
Dim classinstance As yourclassmodule
 
 
'you need to terminate this class
Set classinstance = Nothing
 
'then unload all forms

I hope I am understanding you correct . . .

[BuggyProgrammer]

calling anything of the form will reload the form, so make sure that you are not doing that, even something like

If Form1.Visible = True Then

will reload form1

[AngelOfDeath69]

Thanks, but due to the nature of the Class Module, which is to say, I don't create it, it's internal to my application and completely public.

I can't terminate it that way. I'll have a look in case I'm missing something like that but I don't think so.

By the way, the only calls I'm making to the other forms, is "Unload", so they should not be reloading at all.

Thanks for the help people. But is there a Windows API Call to destroy my instance of the application? I don't need to gracefully terminate it because it finishes all it's tasks before beginning the download.

[Negative0]

A different approach....

Create a loader program. This loader program checks a registry value to see if it should download. Complete the download and replace the EXE that is not even loaded into memory. Load your program as usual.

From your current app, instead of downloading, just set the flag in the registry and tell the user to shut down the application and restart it.

Hope this helps,

[freewilly]

I think you are going to need a loader app.
This would be a second application that looks at the version of the main app and goes and gets the new one if it's needed. It hen starts the main app with a shell command kills itself.

FW

[AngelOfDeath69]

Thanks, it's probably the best idea I'll get. Damn, it's inconvenient though.