Best Way to Close Lister and Restart DOpus

Help & Support
1
  1. /home\dopusrt.exe /restart
  2. Prefs LAYOUT="Your Layout Name Here" LAYOUTCLOSELISTERS=yes
    Set LISTERSIZE=auto
  3. Another alternative?

TIA

2

For what it's worth, #1 is my chosen method.

3

The 2nd one won't restart the process; it just closes the window and opens a new one.

But maybe that's all you want/need? What's the underlying aim?

4

I'm trying to understand what each does so I know how to choose one over the other in any particular circumstance. What does restarting the process accomplish that closing and reopening the window doesn't get you?

5

As I understand it:

  1. closes both dopusrt.exe (background app) and dopus.exe (open listers) and restarts with a fresh instance, which could be helpful in a troubleshooting situation involving DOpus (doubleclick on desktop issue, excessive memory/cpu issue, conflict with another process such as File Explorer, etc.)

reference: https://www.gpsoft.com.au/help/opus12/index.html#!Documents/DOpusRT_Reference.htm

  1. closes only the open listers and leaves dopusrt.exe running in the background. Not sure it does anything more than that.
6

2Chuck

Thanks for the info. I'll follow your lead and stick with /home\dopusrt.exe /restart

It "refreshes" DOpus and gets back to a default lister without any speed detriment.

7

Another difference is restarting the process will cancel any file copies (etc.) which are still going, while just closing and re-opening the window won't.

Which is best all depends on what you want to do and why.

1 Like