Trap Force Quit on OS X?

Thierry Arbellot thierry.arbellot at wanadoo.fr
Thu Jul 29 05:34:16 EDT 2004


Have a look a the Apple developer site
I found some links that explain how to disable the Force Quit for an  
application
Also, Force Quit send a kill signal to the application, perhaps the  
signal could be intercepted in some way.

Hope it helps.

http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2062.html#Section6
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/ 
tn2062.html#NotShowUpInForceQuit
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/ 
BPRuntimeConfig/Concepts/PListKeys.html

On Wednesday, Jul 28, 2004, at 21:54 Europe/Paris, Devin Asay wrote:

> Does anyone know of a way to trap the Mac OS X Force Quit key sequence  
> (Cmd-Opt-Escape) in Revolution? I want to come up with a way of  
> preventing a user from force quitting unless they have a valid  
> password. Trapping rawKeyDown,  for example, doesn't work:
>
> on rawKeyDown keyCode
>   if the optionKey is down and the commandKey is down then
>     if keyCode = 65307 then  --65037 = esc key
>       -- ask for a password here
>       pass rawKeyDown
>     end if
>   end if
> end rawKeyDown
>
> Devin
>
> Devin Asay
> Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
> Brigham Young University
>
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