Quitting standalone, is this a bug?

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Obviously, I was all wet. At least I can't find any event such as I  
was presupposing might exist.

Joe Wilkins

On May 17, 2007, at 6:08 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:

> Michael, isn't there a premenu msg that could be called before the  
> Quit item is selected that might facilitate this? Of course, you'd  
> also have to do a precommandkey. I don't know that there is such a  
> critter in Rev, but we had it in FB and just thought...
>
> Joe Wilkins
>
> On May 17, 2007, at 4:57 PM, Michael Binder wrote:
>
>> Hi Jacqueline,
>>
>> You wrote:
>>> Ah, I see. Okay. Then you want:
>>>
>>>    put the id of this card of stack "myApp" into thisCd
>>>
>>> Now "thisCd" contains the id of the card. Or you could ask for  
>>> the short
>>> name of the card if that's easier and your cards are all named.
>>
>> I don't think that works.  That is (more or less) what I originally
>> tried.  From my original post:
>>
>>> on shutdownrequest  -- this does not work as expected
>>>    if the short name of this cd is "dataEntry1" then
>>>       validateData1
>>>     else if the short name of this cd is "dataEntry2" then
>>>        validateData2
>>>     end if
>>>       offerChanceToSave
>>> end shutdownrequest
>>>
>>
>> What I have found is that "this stack" doesn't evaluate
>> to the stack that the user is looking at.  Also "this card"
>> doesn't evaluate to the name or the ID of the card that the
>> user is looking at. (How could the engine know what "this
>> card" is if it doesn't even know what "this stack" is?)
>>
>> Two things make me think that that this is a bug:
>> 1) it behaves differently in the development and standalone
>>    environments
>>
>> 2) in the standalone environment the first Quit request
>>    behaves differently than the second and subsequent
>>    requests.
>>
>> I have searched the list archives for help with Quitting.
>> (Thanks, especially, to Ken Ray for his contributions).
>> I know that there are plenty of projects out there that
>> need to trap the Quit command and do various things.  How
>> do others manage to figure out where the user was when the
>> Quit command was issued?
>>
>> __Michael Binder
>>
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