Application quit on OS X

[Pete]

Thanks Jaccue.  So I can't use a closeStack or shutdown message handler to
control this?
Pete

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:14 AM, J. Landman Gay
<jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:

> On 1/20/12 11:23 AM, Pete wrote:
>
>  As far as I can tell, all Mac applications work this way.  Closing the
>> last
>> open window in the app and quitting it are two different activities.  Even
>> the Livecode IDE works that way on a Mac.
>>
>
> Apple says that if your app has only a single window and is a utility (I
> think, can't exact recall), the app should quit when the window is closed.
> System Preferences works that way. But for most of us, that doesn't apply.
>
> The fix is to open an invisible "anchor" stack, either with its vis set to
> false, or just placed offscreen. You don't need to do that on any OS other
> than Mac, because everybody else expects the app to quit when the last
> window is closed.
>
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