Why does my application hang?

[Mea]

Hi! I created a kiosk in Director MX. I have it running as a
fullscreen projector.

* When it starts, it displays a menu and plays music for about four
minutes. Users can interact with the kiosk and select an animation or
video to watch.
* After the music ends, if nobody interacted with the kiosk, it
randomly selects an animation or video to play.
* At the end of the animation or video, the kiosk unloads the animation
or video and returns to the main menu.

The kiosk externally links to about 24 Flash animations, and 44
Quicktime and MPEG videos, ranging in size from 3M - 120M. I made sure
that it unloads each animation or video before it returns to the menu.

The kiosk is supposed to be low maintenance. However, after running
fine for a few days, it just hangs. Sometimes it stops in the middle of
an animation, sometimes it just stays on the main menu, and sometimes it
gets a Windows error about referencing memory it's not allowed to address.

Is it unreasonable to expect it to run continuously without rebooting?
Is there a bug I should be looking for in the code?

Thanks for your help!

** Mea

[JB]

yea I had problems with video sequence crashing things after aq while,
monitor the freeblock for memory leaks, it might be possible to have one
projector open a second instance, then quit it'self as a brute force
leak recovery scheme...

[Andrew Morton]

> Is it unreasonable to expect it to run continuously without rebooting?

If it's running on W95/95(/ME?) then yes, it is unreasonable to expect it to
work for more than twenty-odd hours :-(

> Is there a bug I should be looking for in the code?

Although I'm sure MS would love you to make the aforementioned Windows flavours
reliable, it would be simpler to reboot the machine every day at some time when
no-one's around. You can use an xtra like buddyAPI ([url]www.mods.com.au[/url]
baExitWindows("reboot")) to reboot a PC.

Andrew Morton

[Mea]

You are the second person to suggest rebooting, so this is what I'll do.
Thank you for showing me how to code it!

** Mea :-)