I have been quite busy these days and have no posted in my blog for quite a while. Hopefully I share some of my experiences with moving up to AutoCAD 2015/16 here.
The topic of this post is about calling Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application.Quit().
One of the add-in applications I developed is kind of like "auto-update" application. It has code to handle Application.Idle event.In the event handler, if certain condition is met, the code would call Application.Quit() to shut down AutoCAD. This application has been working well up to the last pre-2015 version of AutoCAD (actually, AutoCAD 2012. We never used AutoCAD 2013/14 in production).
However, this application stops working in AutoCAD 2015. To be exactly, it is the call to Application.Quit() in the event handler (handling Application.Idle event) hangs AutoCAD. When I say "hangs", it is literally "hangs", that is, AutoCAD freezes entirely and can only be shut down by going to Task Manager". I can also see in the Task Manager that AutoCAD spins quite some CPU cycles (30-50%) for nothing after Application.Quit() is called.
Below is the code to reproduce this behaviour.
1 using System;
2 using System.Windows.Forms;
3
4 using Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices;
5 using Autodesk.AutoCAD.EditorInput;
6 using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Runtime;
7 using CadApp = Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application;
8
9 [assembly: CommandClass(typeof(QuitAppInEvent.MyCommands))]
10 [assembly: ExtensionApplication(typeof(QuitAppInEvent.MyCommands))]
11
12 namespace QuitAppInEvent
13 {
14 public class MyCommands : IExtensionApplication
15 {
16 private static bool _quit = false;
17
18 public void Initialize()
19 {
20 CadApp.Idle += CadApp_Idle;
21 }
22
23 public void Terminate()
24 {
25
26 }
27
28 [CommandMethod("DoQuit")]
29 public void RunMyCommand()
30 {
31 _quit = false;
32
33 Document dwg = CadApp.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument;
34 Editor ed = dwg.Editor;
35
36 PromptKeywordOptions opt = new PromptKeywordOptions(
37 "Do you want to quit AutoCAD?");
38 opt.Keywords.Add("Yes");
39 opt.Keywords.Add("No");
40 opt.Keywords.Default = "Yes";
41 opt.AppendKeywordsToMessage = true;
42
43 PromptResult res = ed.GetKeywords(opt);
44 if (res.Status == PromptStatus.OK)
45 {
46 if (res.StringResult == "Yes")
47 {
48 _quit = true;
49 }
50 }
51 }
52
53 private void CadApp_Idle(object sender, EventArgs e)
54 {
55 if (_quit)
56 {
57 DialogResult res = MessageBox.Show(
58 "Do you really want to quit AutoCAD?", "My Quit App",
59 MessageBoxButtons.YesNo, MessageBoxIcon.Question,
60 MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button2);
61
62 //Once "Yes" button is clicked AutoCAD freezes!
63 if (res == DialogResult.Yes)
64 {
65 CadApp.Idle -= CadApp_Idle;
66 CadApp.Quit();
67 }
68 else
69 {
70 _quit = false;
71 }
72 }
73 }
74 }
75 }
I also tried to call Application.Quit() in a normal CommandMethod like this:
75 [CommandMethod("MyQuitCmd", CommandFlags.Session)]
76 public static void MyQuitCommand()
77 {
78 Document dwg = CadApp.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument;
79 Editor ed = dwg.Editor;
80
81 PromptKeywordOptions opt = new PromptKeywordOptions(
82 "Do you want to quit AutoCAD?");
83 opt.Keywords.Add("Yes");
84 opt.Keywords.Add("No");
85 opt.Keywords.Default = "Yes";
86 opt.AppendKeywordsToMessage = true;
87
88 PromptResult res = ed.GetKeywords(opt);
89 if (res.Status == PromptStatus.OK)
90 {
91 if (res.StringResult == "Yes")
92 {
93 CadApp.Quit();
94 }
95 }
96 }
This, of course, works as expected in AutoCAD 2015.
I also tried the code in AutoCAD 2016. The result is the same as with AutoCAD 2015.
So, I had to figure out a way to make my existing application work as before. Fortunately, the solution I found is very simple: calling COM API's AcadApplication.Quit() instead:
53 private void CadApp_Idle(object sender, EventArgs e)
54 {
55 if (_quit)
56 {
57 DialogResult res = MessageBox.Show(
58 "Do you really want to quit AutoCAD?", "My Quit App",
59 MessageBoxButtons.YesNo, MessageBoxIcon.Question,
60 MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button2);
61
62 //Once "Yes" button is clicked AutoCAD freezes!
63 if (res == DialogResult.Yes)
64 {
65 CadApp.Idle -= CadApp_Idle;
66 //CadApp.Quit();
67 dynamic comApp = CadApp.AcadApplication;
68 comApp.Quit();
69 }
70 else
71 {
72 _quit = false;
73 }
74 }
75 }
However, I cannot explain why .NET API's Quit() stops working in the event handler, while COM API's Quit() works, even both are the wrapper of C++ ObjectARX code. I guess the issue with .NET API might be a bug introduced by removing FIBER in AutoCAD 2015. To me, it is good enough that with the minor change (of using COM API's AcadApplication.Quit()) my existing application can still live with AutoCAD 2015/16.