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Re: Stay-open applet - problems on quitting
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Re: Stay-open applet - problems on quitting


  • Subject: Re: Stay-open applet - problems on quitting
  • From: julifos <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 11:53:42 +0100

> Greetings,
>
> I'm working on a stay-open applet which is causing me grief when
> quitting. It's a long story & has taken a lot of debugging to nail
> down, but basically what I've discovered is that when the app is quit
> via Cmd-q, it enters its 'quit' handler immediately, regardless of
> whatever else it's doing. This is happening under OS10.2.6, AS1.9.1.
>
> Where it bites me is if it's asked to quit when in the middle of
> executing its 'idle' routines, which can take some time. It appears to
> stop what it's doing, execute 'quit' then go back to where it was in
> the idle routines. My quit handler zeros out the variables the idle
> handler was using, so the idle handler then errors out.
>
> My questions are:
>
> Is this the way it's supposed to work?
> If yes, then why?
> Either way, can anyone suggest a robust method for dealing with the
> behaviour?

Hi, Richard.

You described the correct behaviour. You may take a look to this:
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/AppleScript
LangGuide/AppleScript.e9.html>

The "robust method" may depend on what's going on in your code...

Cheers ;-)

jj
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