KillTasks  -  Kills several application tasks at once

by Graham Crow

Do you ever find your icon bar becoming cluttered with tasks? You
want to quit most of them, and must go laboriously through them one
by one, opening the menu and choosing Quit. Do you ever quit a task
by mistake because the icons are rearranged on the icon bar and you
clicked on the wrong one?

KillTasks has been written to solve these problems. It displays all active tasks by name in a single window, and allows you to quit any selection of tasks with a single click.

Running the program from the RISC User menu system, or from a Filer window, opens a single window. There is no icon bar
icon to cause further clutter!

The display simply lists all the active application tasks - module
tasks are not included as you do not normally need to quit these. When tasks are run or terminated the display is
automatically updated.

To 'kill' a selection of tasks make the selection as you would
with the Filer using one of the following methods:
 click Select on the name to select it (Adjust toggles the state)
 drag Select on the background to create a rotating box for multiple selections (Adjust toggles the states)
 click Menu to select/clear all the names

Note that, to prevent suicide, it is not possible to select
KillTasks itself!

Having made your selection, click on the Kill selection button to make it happen (if nothing has been selected a beep sounds).

Note that a PreQuit message is sent to the selected tasks before they are quit. This gives any task with unsaved data the chance to object. If you subsequently confirm that you wish to discard the unsaved data you may need to kill the task a second time.

To quit KillTasks close its window.

Copyright  RISC User 1996
