trapping quit

[Devin Asay]

I'm not getting something. I want to trap the quit message and do some 
stuff before my program quits. I finally settled on trying the 
shutdownRequest message. When I handle it and pass it in the 
development environment, it works as expected: it does the stuff I want 
it to do then quits Revolution. But when I compile the stack as a 
standalone, the shutdownRequest message gets executed, but the quit 
never happens. I even tried adding an explicit quit call to the 
shutdownRequest handler. The resultant standalone still will not quit.

I read the dictionary entries for both shutdown and shutdownRequest. 
The latter seemed to be the one I wanted, but as I said, it's not 
working. The descriptions of both are a little sketchy, so maybe I'm 
not understanding something. Can someone shed some light on how these 
messages work and what is the best way to intercept then pass on a quit 
call. Jeanne?

Devin

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University