Add a Kill and Restart function

[sebescudie]

In the Kill popup, there should be a (smaller) Kill and Restart button that does just that.

[tebjan]

Additionally, "Kill All", it often doesn't remember the particular process and doesn't kill it. So it needs the option to kill all running processes named "vvvv".

[sebescudie]

Hey @tebjan, what's the behavior you're observing? The kill button already does a taskkill /f /im vvvv.exe under the hood, so it should kill all vvvv.exe currently running!

[seltzdesign]

It doesn't. I have to manually kill vvvv.exe like 9/10 times, even after pressing Kill vvvv.

I think what Tebjan means is a button to kill all running vvvv.exe processes and then restart (do the same as pressing "Launch"). Often you need to kill vvvv and restart it, so it would be cool to be one button.

As for killing the process, it's definitely not killing vvvv always. Or maybe I should clarify: If I quit vvvv normally from within the software and the process is still running in task manager, then pressing kill vvvv in gammalauncher won't close it. Only doing it in taskmanager seems to do it.

From experience I know there are different ways to find running processes to kill them.

[seltzdesign]

Here you can see the behavior.

[seltzdesign]

This has worked for me in a different project where we are monitoring several processes:

[seltzdesign]

Did a little test with a .bat file and basically the patch above. If you have a vvvv process that is hanging, it will not kill that. Using the method in VL on the left, it works and successfully closes the hanging process: