How manually shuting down process

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#1

Hi,

While trying a while loop, I’ve of course put it in eternal mode. Classic joke.
After a while, the engine stop, and a message tell me to “shut down manually the process” when I try to re-run it.

The engine window refuse to close, and don’t answer to orders from the window manager (click on the close button, alt-f4, title bar menu, and so).

It don’t appear in the process list. When I tried to kill Java, it killed the Defold software (but luckily, I saved my work since Defold was NOT frozen).

Killing (or just closing) Defold kill the process okay.

I looked in the menus, and apparently there is no option named “Kill that M.F.”.

But since the joke about the eternal loop is probably one of the olders in computers (We had it already in the 80’s - with dangerous results sometimes, in that era), I suppose I’m not looking at the good place.

My question is : How do you kill a game running an eternal loop (or stuff like that) ?

#2

I don’t know much about killing stuff on Windows but when playing with while loops you can simply put a counter(for preventing endless loop, you can remove it later). If the counter limit is reached break it.

#3

The windows I speak of are the windows manager’s one, not the OS Windows (all the box that your OS open).

And yes, I understand i can make a counter, but sometimes the counter can fail for… reasons. Or I can forgot it. Or…

I just want to know how you can “kill” the game without having to exit Defold.

#4

Are you sure you didn’t see the ”dmengine.exe” in the task list? That’s the engine, and you should be able to kill that process.

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