Reliable way to do something on shutdown?

[J. Landman Gay]

On 6/18/13 11:03 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 6/18/13 10:51 PM, Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
>>> From: J. Landman Gay
>>>
>>> ShutdownRequest is sent when the user tries to quit.
>>> CloseStackRequest
>>> is sent when they try to close a window, like when they click on the
>>> close box.
>>
>> Sounds like I need to handle both, then. It seems "wrong" to me that
>> there
>> is no message that universally indicates shutdown, no matter how it is
>> invoked, but I guess I can live with it.
>>
>
> Well, on a Mac, closing the last window doesn't shut down the app. The
> app stays resident and sits there with nothing but its menu bar showing,
> waiting for you to choose Quit. :)
>

I take that back -- closing the *last* window does shut it down. But it 
isn't always the last window the user is closing, so we need two messages.

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