[PD] how to kill all [shell]'s child before quitting Pd

[Jack]

Le 28/05/2013 20:14, Antoine Villeret a écrit :
> hi, 
>
> I'm calling a new instance of Pd inside a Pd patch with [shell]
> but I notice I can't quit the main pd instance if a process is still
> running inside the [shell]
>
> the GUI hangs until the process ends (until I quit Pd)
> since the child pd is running without gui, 
>
> 1) is it possible to exit a running process via [shell] ?
> for example how could I send a ^c (ctrl+c) command ?
>
> 2) moreover, how to trig it when I press ctrl+Q or menu quit ?
>
> 3) the [noquit] abstraction gives me a tcl error : "can't rename
> menu_quit command doesn't exists"
>
> I'm running pd vanilla 0.44-2
>
> thanks for help
>
> antoine
>
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Hello Antoine,

With the message [pd & echo $!( to [shell], you should get the PID of
the subprocess. A [kill number_PID( to [shell] should kill this subprocess.
++

Jack


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