You could try trapping for the quit appleevent (which I think is
aevtquit or reqdquit), as in:
on appleEvent pClass,pID
if pClass pID = aevtquit then
-- your code here
else
pass appleEvent
end if
end appleEvent
Ken Ray
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Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 8:59 AM
Subject: Handling a system shutdown
Handling a shutDownRequest message lets us interrupt the process of
Quitting
Metacard in order to make sure things are properly saved. But on my Mac
OS9.2
it does not appear that this message is generated if the user is in the
Finder
and chooses Shut Down while Metacard is running in the background. Is
there
any way to intercept this shutdown process--as most commercial programs
do--so
that Metacard does not quit without giving the user a chance to save
unsaved
changes?
David Epstein
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1. Re: Can't delete card (Alain Farmer)
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3. Re: Can't delete card (Ken Ray)
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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:38:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Alain Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Can't delete card
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When I try to delete a card via a bg script, I am
given an Error message (...). the error message:
Object: stack locked, or object's script is
executing Chunk: can't delete object
Is there a rationale behind this?
Put the delete handler higher up in the hierarchy,
e.g. in the bg-script or in the stack-script. The
rationale is that you cannot delete the card that
contains the running handler. BTW it is still
running even though all of the statements have been
executed, because the last line has not executed yet,
e.g. the end handlerName
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 19:14:53 -0800
Subject: Re: Can't delete card
From: Mark Talluto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 06:38 PM, Alain Farmer wrote:
When I try to delete a card via a bg script, I am
given an Error message (...). the error message:
Object: stack locked, or object's script is
executing Chunk: can't delete object
Is there a rationale behind this?
Put the delete handler higher up in the hierarchy,
e.g. in the bg-script or in the stack-script. The
rationale is that you cannot delete the card that
contains the running handler. BTW it is still
running even though all of the statements have been
executed, because the last line has not executed yet,
e.g. the end handlerName
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All you have to do is use the send command to call another handler 1- 2
seconds later to do the delete card job for you. You may need to have
the handler being called by send put in the stack or some other
location that is not where the card to be deleted is.
Best regards,
Mark Talluto
http://www.canelasoftware.com
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Message: 3
From: Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Can't delete card
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 21:19:26 -0600
Organization: Sons of Thunder Software
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All you have to do is use the send command to call another handler 1-
2
seconds later to do the delete card job for you. You may need to have
the handler being called by send put in the stack or some other
location that is not where the card to be deleted is.
Actually you don't have to wait even that long; you can do a send in 100
ms
or less to have it work as well...
Ken Ray
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