Re: Stay Open Applet freezes computer when told to quit.
Re: Stay Open Applet freezes computer when told to quit.
- Subject: Re: Stay Open Applet freezes computer when told to quit.
- From: Jed Verity <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:46:55 -0800
I should mention that the crashes really only occurred after the applet had
been open for at least a couple of hours...
Thanks for the info on the quit handler. I'll give it a try.
Jed
On the threshold of genius, email@hidden wrote:
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Jed Verity writes:
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I had a similar problem (except that my computers would often freeze even
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when the applet was quit manually or by the OS upon shut down).
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Unfortunately, this email is not going to shed much helpful light on the
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situation except to say that the folks at AppleScript picked up my post on
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this list and ran it through their QA people. Since they couldn't reproduce
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the problem, they told me to sit tight until 9.1 became available.
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About the only help I can offer is that there seems to be a lower incidence
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of crashes upon quitting a stay-open applet if the Finder is the only other
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application running (but it would still crash from time to time).
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I have no problem with quitting a stay open app with other applications
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running. I created it to do its thing while different browsers were running,
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then clean up and quit when I had finished with the browsers. I did include a
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quit handler in the stay open app, so don't know if that has made any
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difference. Works on both internal and external quit commands .. Jim
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on quit
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tell application "Finder"
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tell application "whatevername" to continue quit me
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end tell
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end quit
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