SimileScript process hangs if I don't show the model window
Mon, 27/11/2006 - 17:13 — imotic
In my TCL script, I have the following:
modelWin UseMRE false
# modelWin Show
modelWin Open "./model.pl"
modelWin Run
I have the "Show" window commented out, as I'm trying to run the simulation without actually displaying it on the screen. This runs successfully, but when I try to exit the script after completing, the process hangs and does not exit successfully. Is there an explicit way to exit if I don't show the model window? Or do I need to show the model window in order to execute and exit successfully?
SimileScript process hangs if I don't show the model window
I'm using Windows XP. Where would I find this log if Simile has created it? I do have an 'exit' statement at the bottom, it's not attached to any objects or anything; i'm not calling "modelWin Exit" or anything, if there is such a thing.
This could be related to error handling, or perhaps this is a separate issue. If an error comes up, is there a way to handle that (like Exception handling in java)? I don't want a dialog box to be shown to the screen, but instead I'd like to write the error to a file and otherwise fail silently.
SimileScript process hangs if I don't show the model window
I just tried this out, and I find that I get the messy shutdown (i.e., simile leaves a logfile and asks to restore from it) if you exit the script by typing ctrl-D. However if you use the 'exit' command it exits cleanly. It does not seem to make any difference whether the model window is displayed.
This might be an OS-specific thing. I'm using Linux -- what are you using?
--Jasper