Re: Does 'quit' have a place in iOS apps?

2012-02-19 Thread Gerry Orkin
Yup, LC apps can't take advantage of background functioning...yet. Hopefully that will change in a future release. Gerry On 20/02/2012, at 12:12 PM, Ken Ray wrote: > I assume is the case with LC apps. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists

Re: Does 'quit' have a place in iOS apps?

2012-02-19 Thread Ken Ray
On Feb 19, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: > Gerry, thanks for replying. > > That's what happens to my simple little app, but what about my favourite > radio app, TuneIn Radio? It's feeding the BBC to me as I write this, but I > could only access Mail by pressing the Home button after

Re: Does 'quit' have a place in iOS apps?

2012-02-19 Thread Graham Samuel
Gerry, thanks for replying. That's what happens to my simple little app, but what about my favourite radio app, TuneIn Radio? It's feeding the BBC to me as I write this, but I could only access Mail by pressing the Home button after getting my radio station started, and it was definitely not k

Re: Does 'quit' have a place in iOS apps?

2012-02-19 Thread Gerry Orkin
LC iOS apps don't stay alive when you quit them with the Home button. You can save and restore things to give the impressions of a quit and resume, but the app itself is killed when you quit. In my experience the "on shutdown" command is the best place to put stuff you want to do when the app q

Does 'quit' have a place in iOS apps?

2012-02-19 Thread Graham Samuel
AFAICS, iOS apps don't have an overt 'quit' button, since simply pressing the physical button on the device (I forgot its name) quits whatever is running. However this isn't quite right is it, since apps can go on being present and maybe actually running in the background. And then there is the