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Re: How do you get a stay-open applet to quit?
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Re: How do you get a stay-open applet to quit?


  • Subject: Re: How do you get a stay-open applet to quit?
  • From: Adam Bell <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 10:43:52 -0400

Remember that you can see it in the Activity Monitor and quit it
there, and also, knowing its name you can force quit it with --> do
shell script "killall 'YourProcessName'". Putting in a quit mode and
quit handler is much the better way.


On 1/2/06, Luther Fuller <email@hidden> wrote:
> ... Asked Michelle Steiner.
>
> It is possible to have a script with only an 'idle' handler and
> containing no commands to tell it to quit. I had one of these showing
> in my Dock only moments ago while reading mail. It will quit only
> when I choose Quit from the Dock menu. But quit will fail unless
> there is a 'quit' handler to receive the 'quit' message. The 'quit'
> handler will look like this ...
>
> on quit
>      -- optional stuff
>      continue quit
> end quit
>
> Without this, it just keeps going and going ...
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