Reliable way to do something on shutdown?

[Terry Judd]

Are you making sure any other open stacks are being closed as well (for example in a closeStack or closeStackRequest message handler)? I've also had trouble with revBrowser in the past and always implicitly 'destroyed' any browser instances as I was cleaning up prior to a quit.

Terry...

On 19/06/2013, at 10:59 AM, Paul D. DeRocco wrote:

>> From: Phil Davis
>> 
>> Maybe a shutDownRequest handler in the script of your 
>> mainStack would do 
>> the job. In effect this lets you pause the shutdown process before it 
>> does anything, make sure your external is closed, then pass 
>> shutdownRequest. I think I would start there.
> 
> Actually, that's where I did start, and it didn't work either.
> 
>> Or 'closeStackRequest' 
>> like Terry suggested - it would work in the IDE or the 
>> standalone. That might be a better approach.
> 
> I'll try that this evening. But I wish I understood why what should
> "obviously" work, doesn't.
> 
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Dr Terry Judd
Senior Lecturer in Medical Education
Medical Eduction Unit
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences
The University of Melbourne