Event to say EA has closed

[pwhiston]

Is there an EA event you can hook into to capture that EA has been closed?

[thomaskilian]

Yes. Can't recall it at the moment, but AFAIK the example add-in makes use of that.

[pwhiston]

This is an external program rather than an add-in and I want to know when EA has been closed. Will that still work?

[KP]

There is a broadcast event EA_FileClose which you can intercept. This will tell you when a database has been closed - not quite the same as telling when EA has closed, but there isn't much you can do with EA without having a database open...  

[«Midnight»]

My code seems to receive an EA_Disconnect event when EA shuts down. I believe this event can also result from other circumstances, but at least it works here.

[thomaskilian]

This is an external program rather than an add-in and I want to know when EA has been closed. Will that still work?

Not sure how you need to intercept the closing from an external program. At least you need to have some kind of interface to trigger the according event. From my point of view this is only possible via an add-in.

[bittercoder]

If it's your own app, you should be able to control when you close EA just by calling Exit on the repository... and additionally for .Net you would need to force gargbage collection, to be completely sure it's gone...

[pwhiston]

Thanks to everyone for their input. I fear that the exact event that I require is not there but there are always ways!
Bittercoder - my application is not closing EA - it just wants to know when it has closed.

Midnight/KP will experiment with the EA_Disconnect and EA_FileClose.

Thanks again for everyones response