Quitting Question
Joe Lewis Wilkins
pepetoo at cox.net
Tue Nov 16 16:42:05 EST 2010
Ooops, not so perfectly. It doesn't quit when you don't want to save. Oh well. A work in progress. (smile)
Joe Lewis Wilkins
Architect
760-738-1721
On Nov 16, 2010, at 1:39 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> Since I got it to work perfectly, I thought some others might appreciate a snippet! Probably a neater and shorter way of doing this, but what the heck! I suppose I could have just gone for the name of the application, but this is generic enough to handle any stack with any standalone name.
>
> Joe Wilkins
>
> case "Quit"
> get the long name of this stack
> delete the last char of it
> put the number of chars in it into numChars
> put Char (numChars-2) to numChars of it into myName
> if myName is "rev" then
> closeStackRequest
> else
> shutDownRequest
> end if
> break
>
> On Nov 16, 2010, at 10:16 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote:
>
>> Hi Joe,
>>
>> Are you using a Mac? Try the closeStackRequest message in the IDE and the shutdownRequest messages in the standalone.
>>
>> This script http://runrev.info/Save%20Way%20to%20a%20Quit.htm might also help you.
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Mark Schonewille
>>
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>> On 16 nov 2010, at 19:14, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> The Quit item in my apps menu has a Do you want to save Answer Dialog, but in the IDE it is over-ridden by LC with its own version - a sheet. With the standalone I get nothing. It just quits. How come? I guess I must be doing something wrong.
>>>
>>> Joe Wilkins
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