Re: Quit Handler... What Am I Missing Here?
Re: Quit Handler... What Am I Missing Here?
- Subject: Re: Quit Handler... What Am I Missing Here?
- From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 14:50:38 -0500
On May 11, 2011, at 2:40 PM, S. J. Cunningham wrote:
> Just a clarification: all the "try's" and "display dialogs" were to help me try to figure out what is going on. My understanding is that I should see nothing after executing "continue quit". The fact that I do is the problem.
>
> That is to say the simple script:
>
>> on run {}
>> quit
>> display dialog "Whoops! Statement following quit in run handler"
>> end run
>>
>> on quit {}
>> continue quit
>> end quit
>
>
> Should never display the "Whoops" message and yet it does when compiled as an application. Thus, if I change the run handler to be an infinite loop, I can't quit the application from the application's menu.
And I'm thinking you should never explicitly call the 'quit' handler from the 'run' handler. The 'run' handler, when completed, always goes to the 'quit' handler, if it's there. In other words ...
on run
-- do stuff
--> quit handler
end run
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