modal dialogs and Quit problem

[Barry Levine]

Alex,

The problem is the same for the apple event.

BTW - The problem I am experiencing with the force-quit being necessary 
when compiling my app in OSX -for- OSX is gone with I compile on WinXP 
-for- OSX. I'm in the process of wiping a HD for a clean OSX / Rev 
install and will report if this resolves the problem. I can, however, 
generate a small app (on OSX -for- OSX) using a new 3-stack structure 
without the force-quit issue being present. There is something about my 
"problem app" that the OSX Rev IDE doesn't like.

There really is only one problem although it seems it can be exhibited 
using a number of methods: Rev is not disabling the Quit menu item when 
it is appropriate to do so. Everything else about this problem (the 
force-quit issue I am experiencing, the necessity to trap for the 
shutDownRequest or AppleEvent, etc.) is brought about by what is 
probably one or two missing lines of code in the engine.

Now, there is one additional issue -but- it would not be a problem if 
the first one didn't exist: You can't disable the Quit menu item in 
OSX. This tells me that the issue discussed in the previous paragraph 
is really the issue because, if that problem did not exist, we wouldn't 
be looking for a means to disable the Quit menu.

Regards,
Barry


On Tuesday, Sep 9, 2003, at 05:33 America/Denver, Alex wrote:

> shutdownRequest is also coincident with an apple event that's described
> in the docs. I would check to make sure that the apple event has the
> same bug as the shutdownRequest (gets sent during modal dialog). If the
> apple event for some reason doesn't suffer the same bug then that opens
> up a better workaround possibility.
>