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[Updater] Close a running Cockatrice when the installer asks (#7672)
* [Updater] Refuse a close that arrives while one is already asking

MainWindow::closeEvent() had a re-entrancy guard that returned without touching
the event. A QCloseEvent is accepted unless something ignores it, so a second
close request - an installer replacing our files posts one every 30 s - accepted
the close while the first one was still blocked on its own confirmation. close()
then hid this window, hid the confirmation dialog with it, and left the process
running inside the nested loop that dialog had opened: no window, no way to
answer it, and every later close request accepted into the same dead end. That
is what an update looked like when it could not close a running client, and it
is why the installer could name the process, bring it forward and ask it to
close for minutes without anything happening.

Track how far the shutdown has got instead. While a confirmation is up, a close
from anywhere else is refused, which leaves the question in front of the user;
once the shutdown has been accepted, a duplicate close (Qt delivers the event
twice on some platforms) is accepted again so it cannot cancel the quit.

* [Installer] Leave an instance that is asking a question alone

An instance that answered a close by hiding rather than quitting - the state the
client used to get into - has no visible window left, and the confirmation it is
waiting on is hidden with the window that owns it. The close probe only ever
looked at visible windows, so it restored the main window, posted WM_CLOSE into
the same dead end, and reported "still running" without saying why.

Show every window the instance left hidden before choosing the one to close, and
skip the close when the window it would reach is disabled: a modal dialog of the
instance's own is up, and posting the close then only hides the question again.
Name what is left of the window in the report as well - gone, still open, hidden
again, and whether the thread answers at all - so the log tells a refused close
from one that was never delivered.

* [Installer] Offer to end a Cockatrice that will not close

A close is a request, and an instance that does not answer it - waiting on a
question nobody is looking at, or stuck where a close cannot reach - leaves the
user with no way forward: the files cannot be replaced while it runs, and
clicking Yes again only repeats the request.

After a second close that changed nothing, offer the only thing that can free
the files: end it. The prompt says what it costs - an unsaved deck, a running
game or a setting it has not written yet - the default button is the safe one,
and it is a separate answer rather than a relabelled "Yes", so it is not
reached by clicking through the close prompt. Only cockatrice.exe is ever
ended: Oracle writes the card database in place and Servatrice is a service, so
both are named and left to the user, exactly as they are for the close.

The probe gains an --end-holders mode for it, and the uninstaller's guard gets
the same offer.

* [Installer] Never name the process that is doing the asking

The old uninstaller is started with _?= so it runs in place, from the very
directory it is emptying, and an installer can be downloaded into the folder it
installs to. Both are then processes running from the directory, so the probe
named them - and the guard asked the user to close the program that was asking.
That question cannot be answered: a close and the end offer both skip anything
that is not cockatrice.exe, so the guard repeated itself until the update or the
uninstall was cancelled.

The probe and the processes that started it are now never named, by either
lookup. The walk up the parent chain stops at the first program the payload
installs, because in an in-app update the installer's own parent is the
Cockatrice instance being replaced - the one the guard exists to name.

The Windows check held its locked file in the script that starts the probe, so
that holder is excluded by design now and the check read it as "nothing found".
It holds the file from a process of its own instead, and asserts the exclusion
itself: a file that only the asking process holds comes back as nothing.

* [Installer] Restore only the windows a user could answer

Showing every hidden window an instance owns put Qt's own bookkeeping windows on
screen: the tray icon keeps one to receive the TaskbarCreated message, styled
WS_OVERLAPPED and titled QTrayIconMessageWindow. Restored, it is an empty white
rectangle in the taskbar with no title bar to close it - it has no window
procedure that would hide it again, and the process is busy in the very loop the
restore is meant to break, so it stayed until the process was force-ended.

Only framed, non-empty windows are restored and considered for the close now.
That also keeps the close off Qt's tray window, which answers WM_CLOSE by asking
the application to terminate - a quit that skips the confirmation the close is
supposed to reach.

* [Installer] Uninstall the previous version before installing over it

A regular install over an existing one asked "a previous version must be
uninstalled", then ran the old uninstaller interactively. That uninstaller
put its confirmation page behind the installer window, where it could not be
answered, and it only removed the installation after the installer had
already written the new one over it.

Run the previous version's uninstaller silently instead. The installer has
already asked the question the user answered, so a second, hidden confirmation
is pure risk: with /S there is no window to be behind, and ExecWait is then
waiting for something that cannot outlive it. QuietUninstallString is used
when the old installation has one, otherwise /S is appended.

ExecWait only waits while the uninstaller runs in place: one that did not get
a usable _?= copies itself to %TEMP% and returns at once, while the copy keeps
deleting - which is how an uninstall can finish after the install it was
supposed to precede. Log the exit code and wait for the old cockatrice.exe to
disappear before restoring user data or writing anything, and abort with a
message instead of installing into a directory that is still being emptied.

Cancelling the "must be uninstalled" prompt now quits the installer; it used
to skip the page and install over the old version anyway.

* [Installer] Do not show windows the application has hidden

The guard restored every hidden window an instance owned before asking it to
close, so that a confirmation hidden together with its window would come back.
Windows does as it is told and shows them; the application does not, because Qt
still believes they are hidden and never paints them. What the user gets is a
blank white rectangle, on screen and on the taskbar, that answers nothing - and
the question it was meant to bring back is not answerable in it either.

An instance with no window a user could answer is named and left to the user
instead, and the prompt says what to do about it: open it from the notification
area. Ending it stays the last resort, offered once a close has been asked for
twice.

The abort after a failed uninstall now says what it saw - the old version is
still there after its uninstaller ran - instead of promising a removal that is
not happening, which is the state a cancelled old uninstaller leaves behind.

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Co-authored-by: Lukas Brübach <Bruebach.Lukas@bdosecurity.de>
2026-10-27 11:19:49 +01:00
.ci [Updater] Close a running Cockatrice when the installer asks (#7672) 2026-10-27 11:19:49 +01:00
.github [CrashReporting] Breakpad capture, session detection and symbol upload (#7523) 2026-10-19 14:57:04 +02:00
.tx [Translation] Move config into git version control (#7575) 2026-10-18 14:29:51 +02:00
cmake [Updater] Close a running Cockatrice when the installer asks (#7672) 2026-10-27 11:19:49 +01:00
cockatrice [Updater] Close a running Cockatrice when the installer asks (#7672) 2026-10-27 11:19:49 +01:00
doc Support tab-separated deck imports (#4222) (#7267) 2026-10-11 21:19:10 +02:00
libcockatrice_card [CardDB] Clear CardInfo relations before deferred deletion (#7615) 2026-10-24 10:28:24 +02:00
libcockatrice_deck_list Support tab-separated deck imports (#4222) (#7267) 2026-10-11 21:19:10 +02:00
libcockatrice_filters [Filters] Precompute term data instead of redoing it per card (#7603) 2026-10-23 11:23:17 +02:00
libcockatrice_interfaces [Client] Tabbed room channels with unread states and collapsible chat (#7478) 2026-10-16 22:46:39 +02:00
libcockatrice_models [Models] Use QCollator for natural, cached sorting (#7633) 2026-10-25 01:01:04 +02:00
libcockatrice_network [Network] Do not format discarded debug messages, parse without memmove (#7606) 2026-10-25 12:49:24 +01:00
libcockatrice_protocol [Server/Client/Protocol] Let moderators clear banner cards (#7546) 2026-10-25 13:19:20 +01:00
libcockatrice_rng [CI] Publish a gcovr line-coverage report from the test run (#7404) 2026-10-11 15:05:28 +02:00
libcockatrice_settings [CrashReporting] Mock crash-report dialog and reporting preference (#7521) 2026-10-19 14:57:03 +02:00
libcockatrice_utility [Translation] Name languages without reading the translation files (#7662) 2026-10-26 02:39:26 +01:00
oracle [Translation] Name languages without reading the translation files (#7662) 2026-10-26 02:39:26 +01:00
servatrice [Server/Client/Protocol] Let moderators clear banner cards (#7546) 2026-10-25 13:19:20 +01:00
tests [Translation] Name languages without reading the translation files (#7662) 2026-10-26 02:39:26 +01:00
tools [Updater] Close a running Cockatrice when the installer asks (#7672) 2026-10-27 11:19:49 +01:00
vcpkg@9e593bb18e Update vcpkg submodule to 2026.07.29 release (+ add baseline) (#7067) 2026-08-05 22:00:06 +02:00
.clang-format Enable RemoveSemicolon & update format.sh (#6896) 2026-05-16 20:26:37 +02:00
.cmake-format.json rework formatting with cmake-format (#4627) 2022-06-08 21:14:26 -04:00
.dockerignore Include git metadata in docker build context (#7393) 2026-10-04 03:48:15 +02:00
.gitignore [Card Database] Improve loading times through binary cache (#7051) 2026-07-27 23:12:53 +02:00
.gitmodules Docs: Use doxygen-awesome-css theme (#6512) 2026-01-24 11:22:43 +01:00
CMakeLists.txt Revert "[Version] Bump to 3.2.0 for beta release. (#7653)" (#7660) 2026-10-25 20:19:23 +01:00
docker-compose.yml Docker compose: Link to our GHCR hosted servatrice image (#6728) 2026-03-22 10:28:24 +01:00
docker-compose.yml.windows Docker compose: Link to our GHCR hosted servatrice image (#6728) 2026-03-22 10:28:24 +01:00
Dockerfile [Security] Use a CSPRNG for salts, tokens, and RNG seeding (#7192) 2026-09-04 13:49:18 +02:00
Doxyfile [Docs] Add app logo to main page + cleanup (#7471) 2026-10-10 23:48:37 +02:00
format.sh [CrashReporting] Name the files and processes behind a failed installer purge (#7590) 2026-10-24 00:46:54 +02:00
gcovr.cfg [CI] Publish a gcovr line-coverage report from the test run (#7404) 2026-10-11 15:05:28 +02:00
iwyu.sh [Tooling] Add IWYU Qt6 mapping, generator, and runner script (#7454) 2026-10-08 11:17:01 +02:00
LICENSE update the address of the fsf in the license (#6113) 2025-09-10 18:18:34 -04:00
publish_beta.sh [Tooling] Add publish_beta.sh to automate Development beta tagging (#7505) 2026-10-19 15:01:18 +02:00
qt6.imp [Tooling] Add IWYU Qt6 mapping, generator, and runner script (#7454) 2026-10-08 11:17:01 +02:00
README.md [README] Small tweaks (#7585) 2026-10-22 20:13:43 +02:00
shell.nix nix: Add development utilities to shell.nix (#5725) 2025-03-15 19:03:26 +00:00
vcpkg.json Update vcpkg submodule to 2026.07.29 release (+ add baseline) (#7067) 2026-08-05 22:00:06 +02:00


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Cockatrice

Cockatrice is an open-source, multiplatform application for playing tabletop card games over a network. The program's server design prevents users from manipulating the game for unfair advantage. The client also provides a single-player mode, which allows users to brew while offline.

This project uses C++ and the Qt libraries.

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To commit code to the project, please review our Contribution Guidelines first.
We maintain two tags for contributors to easier find issues to potentially work on:

  • Good first issue
    Issues tagged in this way provide a simple way to get started. They don't require much experience to be worked on.
  • Help wanted
    This tag is used for issues that we are looking for somebody to pick up. Often this is for feature suggestions we support, but don't have the time to work on ourselves.

For both tags, we're willing to provide help to contributors in showing them where and how they can make changes, as well as code reviews for submitted changes.
We'll happily advice on how best to implement a feature, or we can show you where the codebase is doing something similar before you get too far along - put a note on an issue you want to discuss more on!

You can also have a look at our Todo List in our Code Documentation or search the repo for \todo comments.

Documentation CI Docs

There are various places where useful information for different needs are maintained:

Cockatrice tries to use the Google Developer Documentation Style Guide to ensure consistent documentation.
We encourage everybody to improve the documentation by suggesting edits based on this guide.

Translation Transifex Project

Cockatrice uses Transifex to manage translations. You can help us bring Cockatrice and Oracle to your language and just adjust single wordings right from within your browser by visiting our Transifex project page. The Webatrice web client manages its own translations in its repo.

Check out our Translator FAQ for more information about getting involved, and join a group of hundreds of others!

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Dependencies: (for minimum versions search our CMake file)

Oracle can optionally use some packages to load compressed card files:


Basic compilation steps:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

You can then

  • Create a Cockatrice installation inside the release folder:
    make install
    
  • Or make an installation package specific to your system:
    make package
    

Note

Detailed compiling instructions can be found in the Cockatrice wiki at Compiling Cockatrice


The following flags (with their non-default values) can be passed to cmake:

Flag Description
-DWITH_SERVER=1 Build Servatrice server
-DWITH_CLIENT=0 Don't build Cockatrice client
-DWITH_ORACLE=0 Don't build Oracle card database tool
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug Compile in debug mode
Enables extra logging output, debug symbols, and much more verbose compiler warnings
-DWARNING_AS_ERROR=0 Don't treat compilation warnings as errors in debug mode
-DUPDATE_TRANSLATIONS=1 Configure make to update the translation .ts files for new strings in the source code
Note: make clean will remove the .ts files
-DTEST=1 Enable regression tests
Note: make test to run tests, googletest will be downloaded if not available

Tip

Build code documentation (Doxygen) according to our configuration into /docs:

doxygen Doxyfile

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Cockatrice is the game client
Oracle fetches card data
Servatrice is the server

Docker

You can build an image & deploy a Servatrice (Cockatrice server) container using Docker and our Dockerfile yourself.

For more details, look into our wiki section on Setting up Servatrice.
You'll also find more hints on our pre-build image there, or the docker-compose file which will configure and run both a MySQL server and Servatrice.

License GPLv2 License

Cockatrice is free software, licensed under the GPLv2.