Problems with ShutDownRequest

Howard Bornstein howard.bornstein at gmail.com
Thu May 26 14:01:51 EDT 2005


On 5/25/05, Jan Schenkel <janschenkel at yahoo.com> wrote:

> >
> 
> Hi Howard,
> 
> Have you tried to 'start using' the mainstack of your
> standalone ? When you create a new stack, it is its
> own mainstack -- so when uncaught by the target stack,
> the 'shutdownRequest' message would go straight to the
> engine, bypassing your standalone mainstack.

But each stack had its own shutdownrequest handler. One of them should
have caught it.

> Another method to ensure that it will get caught is by
> putting the 'shutdownRequest' handler in a backscript.
> It seems to work for me in the Quartam Reports layout
> builder.
> 

That's what Brian suggested and it did work. But I still wonder if
I've found a bugzilla-able situation.

-- 
Regards,

Howard Bornstein
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