What’s the best way to detect an application crash in XP (produces the same pair of ‘error’ windows each time – each with same window title) and then restart it?
I’m especially interested to hear of solutions that use minimal system resources as the system in question is quite old.
I had thought of using a scripting language like AutoIt (http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/), and perhaps triggering a ‘detector’ script every few minutes?
Would this be better done in Python, Perl, PowerShell or something else entirely?
Any ideas, tips, or thoughts much appreciated.
EDIT: It doesn’t actually crash (i.e. exit/terminate – thanks @tialaramex). It displays a dialog waiting for user input, followed by another dialog waiting for further user input, then it actually exits. It’s these dialogs that I’d like to detect and deal with.
How about creating a wrapper application that launches the faulty app as a child and waits for it? If the exit code of the child indicates an error, then restart it, else exit.