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Bug 322122

Summary: [OLE] Word.application does not kill WINWORD process.
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Krzysztof Kazmierczyk <kazm>
Component: SWTAssignee: Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status: CLOSED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: eclipse.felipe, kazm
Version: 4.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 321000    

Description Krzysztof Kazmierczyk CLA 2010-08-09 07:17:11 EDT 
Build Identifier: I20100608-0911

Exctracted from bug 321000.
When you create and dispose "Word.Application" application component, no WINWORD process has been killed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Run Following code:

Display display = new Display();
final Shell shell = new Shell(display);
frame = new OleFrame(shell, SWT.NONE);
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
    clientSite = new OleClientSite(frame, SWT.NONE, "Word.Application");
    clientSite.dispose();    
}

Now you see 5 WINWORD processes in your Windows.
Comment 1 Felipe Heidrich CLA 2010-08-09 14:50:10 EDT 
try this:
Display display = new Display();
final Shell shell = new Shell(display);
OleFrame frame = new OleFrame(shell, SWT.NONE);
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
	OleClientSite clientSite = new OleClientSite(frame, SWT.NONE, "Word.Application");
	OleAutomation automation = new OleAutomation(clientSite);
	int id = automation.getIDsOfNames(new String[] {"Quit"})[0];
	automation.invoke(id);
	automation.dispose();
    clientSite.dispose();    
}
frame.dispose();
shell.dispose();
display.dispose();

apparently this is how word works: see http://www.ms-news.net/f3262/word-saveas-ole-container-not-killing-process-2621451.html
Comment 2 Krzysztof Kazmierczyk CLA 2010-08-11 07:16:28 EDT 
(In reply to comment #1)
> try this:
> Display display = new Display();
> final Shell shell = new Shell(display);
> OleFrame frame = new OleFrame(shell, SWT.NONE);
> for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
>     OleClientSite clientSite = new OleClientSite(frame, SWT.NONE,
> "Word.Application");
>     OleAutomation automation = new OleAutomation(clientSite);
>     int id = automation.getIDsOfNames(new String[] {"Quit"})[0];
>     automation.invoke(id);
>     automation.dispose();
>     clientSite.dispose();    
> }
> frame.dispose();
> shell.dispose();
> display.dispose();
> 
> apparently this is how word works: see
> http://www.ms-news.net/f3262/word-saveas-ole-container-not-killing-process-2621451.html

OK that works for me now.
Thanks Felipe :)
Should we close it as invalid?
Comment 3 Felipe Heidrich CLA 2010-08-11 10:44:44 EDT 
I think so.
I double checked that SWT is releasing all OLE components.
Calling this "Quit" method is a MS Word thing, so makes sense that the application has to call it.