'Quit' mystery

[Howard Bornstein]

I've updated the bug report with Martin's solution in case anyone else runs
into this.

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 5:20 AM, paolo mazza <mazzapaoloitaly at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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> >
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Howard Bornstein
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