'Quit' mystery

[Howard Bornstein]

In my case, my second stack *was* a substack and quit still didn't work.

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 9:42 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
wrote:

> 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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>>>
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>
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