'Quit' mystery

[paolo mazza]

Nearly 1 year ago I posted this
http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14263  .
It was confirmed but probably it has not been fixed yet.
All the best,
Paolo

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 4:47 AM, Howard Bornstein <bornstein at designeq.com> wrote:
> This really helped me out. Thanks Martin! I couldn't get my standalone to
> quit no matter what. This did the trick.
>
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Martin Koob <mkoob at rogers.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> It has been a long time since I set this up in my application so I don't
>> remember exactly the logic as to why I set this up this way but it seems to
>> work.  The main stack has several substacks which may be open when quit is
>> selected from the menu.
>>
>> Each of the substacks' scripts have a shutdownRequest handler but not a
>> 'pass shutdownRequest' command.  This handler sends a prepareToQuit command
>> to the main card of the main stack.
>>
>> substack stack script
>> -------------------
>> on shutdownRequest
>>    send "preparetoquit" to card "main" of stack "mainstack"
>> end shutdownRequest
>> ------------------
>> The main card of the main stack has the prepareToQuit handler which just
>> has
>> a quit command.  This triggers the shutdownRequest handler in the main
>> card.
>> This shutdownRequest handler has all of the code you want implemented
>> before
>> quitting.  This handler has the 'pass shutdownRequest' command that allows
>> the application to quit.
>>
>> Mainstack >card "main" script
>> -----------------------
>> on preparetoquit
>>     quit
>> end preparetoquit
>>
>> on shutdownRequest
>>     <do stuff here>
>>
>>     pass shutdownRequest
>> end shutdownRequest
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
> Howard Bornstein
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