Close Box and Stand Alone Apps in LiveCode

[Bob Sneidar]

The way to mimic the normal behavior of a Mac application staying open when the last window is closed, is to have you main stack be a splash stack that remains hidden the entire time, and you true application stack be an included stack or substack. Create a menu for the mainstack so you can reopen other stacks in your app. 

Bob


On Aug 31, 2012, at 10:24 AM, Peter Haworth wrote:

> I haven't tested this in 5.5.1 but it used to be that closing the last
> window in an LC standalone app on a Mac quit the application.  There are
> Mac Apps, usually simple utilities that only have one window, that do that
> but I've found that the more normal Mac behavior is for the app to stay
> open until the user quits it from a menu/key combination action.
> 
> I think this was mentioned in another thread but the closeStackRequest
> message is the place to handle this.
> 
> Pete
> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Gregory Lypny
> <gregory.lypny at videotron.ca>wrote:
> 
>> Hi Everyone,
>> 
>> If a standalone LiveCode app in Windows has only one window open and the
>> user clicks the close box in the window, does this quit the app or is there
>> still an app menu from which the user must shut down?  I ask because I
>> develop on Macs and do not have easy access to a Windows computer to
>> compare.
>> 
>> Much obliged,
>> 
>> Gregory
>> 
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