Disable OSX App's menu? - no; but at least handle the "Quit during modal" properly

Thierry Arbellot thierry.arbellot at wanadoo.fr
Mon Sep 8 16:53:58 EDT 2003


Barry,

I've tried to reproduce the bug, but I can't get it.
Everything I tested with modal dialog (answer, ask, ask file) allows me 
to quit afterwards.

Please, could you give more detail on how to reproduce this bug.

Regards.

Thierry.

On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 08:10 PM, Barry Levine wrote:

> Alex,
>
> Yes, perhaps "disable" is inappropriate given that it's not disabled 
> in other OSX apps. However (and as we've both seen), selecting "Quit" 
> from the app menu in the middle of a modal dialog should not prevent 
> the app from quitting later on. I'm sure this is another symptom of 
> the bug #536 I reported earlier.
>
> I've also eMailed the support at runrev.com link for assistance as this 
> is, certainly, a major bug that would prevent me from releasing my 
> app. Telling the customer "don't do that" is not an acceptable 
> workaround.
>
> Regards,
> Barry
>
> On Monday, Sep 8, 2003, at 10:02 America/Denver, Alex wrote:
>
>> I looked in a Cocoa app I wrote and while a modal dialog up, the Quit
>> menu item is *enabled*, but has no effect. That is what I would expect
>> because I haven't coded anything to disable the Quit menu item. No
>> problems quitting afterwards.
>>
>>> I filed bug report #567 over this issue.
>>
>> Good. I simply am wondering if it's realistic for runrev to disable 
>> the
>> quit menu item for you, if Cocoa doesn't even do it.
>>
>> On the other hand, not being able to quit your app would seem to be a
>> bug :-)
>>
>
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