Comments on: Why an App Might Disappear Without Notice

By: Gary Smith

Gary Smith — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:48:59 +0000

I believe an unhandled exception in a DLL? I read something to that effect in the ObjectPascal Language Guide last night.

By: Ritsaert Hornstra

Ritsaert Hornstra — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:29:12 +0000

Halt;

By: steve

steve — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:42:32 +0000

Application.terminate

By: Craig Stuntz

Craig Stuntz — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:28:01 +0000

Aleksander, you’re right, but in recent versions of Delphi exceptions are handled by default in TThread. So you either have to have an old version of Delphi or bypass TThread. But you’re correct that in either case it will have the effect of immediately killing the app.

By: Aleksander Oven

Aleksander Oven — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:22:29 +0000

Unhandled exception in a secondary thread can quite effectively kill the whole process.

By: Hallvard Vassbotn

Hallvard Vassbotn — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:51:34 +0000

If you use a C-based DLL that creates its own threads and there is an unhandled exception in one of those threads (including an exception in a calback back to your application),