Hi Olivier. rdar://problem/6001460
See http://lapcatsoftware.com/rdar/6001460/index.html for an explanation. In short, you won't be able to do it with a LSUIElement app. -Jeff On Feb 14, 2011, at 10:52 AM, Olivier Lance wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm facing a problem returning NSTerminateLater from > applicationShouldTerminate: in a status item application... > I've tried many things and followed the doc I've found, but nothing works as > I'm expecting it to. > > In short, I want to delay the termination of my status item application > (which has LSUIElement set to YES if that matters) so that I can clean some > things up before exiting. > > It does work when I quit the application manually from the menu, but not at > all when I'm restarting the computer. I've seen Terminal and other apps block > the restart process to ask the user to confirm termination, so I guess what I > want is feasible. I'm just probably missing some details... > > Here's what I do : > > in applicationShouldTerminate: I display a dialog using NSRunPanel. Depending > on user choice, I either return NSTerminateNow or NSTerminateLater. > When I return NSTerminateLater I initiate my clean up process, which makes > some asynchronous calls to a device driver. When I receive the driver's > response, I call [NSApp replyToApplicationShouldTerminate:YES]. > The entire process works perfectly fine when the app is being exited from the > status item menu. If I do " > Restart" though, the AlertPanel shows > (sometimes it doesn't even have the time to show up) but the system continues > exiting and I don't have time to click anything. > > I've tried always returning NSTerminateLater, and then display the Alter > Panel, but it doesn't change anything. > > So what am I doing wrong? Is there a requirement I don't meet? Does it have > to be a document-based application? > > Also, would you have any clever way to debug that kind of situation? Tried > remote debugging but the connection would just be shut on restart... > > Thanks a lot, > Olivier Lance._______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
