'Quit' mystery

[J. Landman Gay]

That's what I suspected; the stacks aren't actually substacks. Now it 
makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.

On 11/11/2015 10:59 PM, Howard Bornstein wrote:
> The dictionary says this (from LC 6.7.5):
>
> In standalones, some care is needed to ensure you receive the
> *shutdownRequest* message if your application uses multiple stacks. The
> most reliable approach is to install a library stack or backscript to
> handle the message when your application starts up.
>
> I couldn't get this to work, so I went with Martin Koob's solution, which
> did work. Note that this refers to multi-stack standalones.
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 7:51 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 11/11/2015 7:54 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
>>
>>> is it not the case that the message path goes from substacks
>>> to the main stack? If so, should not a "shutdownRequest" message not
>>> handled
>>> in a sub stack be passed up the message path to the main stack? In which
>>> case you don't need shutdownRequests in each sub, just in the main?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, that's how it should work. I've been wondering why the extra handlers
>> in substacks were required, I've never needed to do that and my apps have
>> always quit. I'd say go with the simpler solution and if that doesn't work
>> then we can figure out why.
>>
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