Re: How to Quit with a button

2014-12-10 Thread Bob Sneidar
Sweet! Bob S > On Dec 9, 2014, at 09:46 , J. Landman Gay wrote: > > That only happens in the IDE, you can lock messages before quitting. Or, > what I usually do from the message box: delete this stack. (Or you can use > the menu option to remove from memory.) Then a regular quit doesn't ask

Re: How to Quit with a button

2014-12-10 Thread Bob Sneidar
Are you saying locking messages before quitting prevents the Save dialog from presenting? I didn’t know that. Bob S > On Dec 8, 2014, at 09:29 , Ray wrote: > > I just issue the command "quit". You might consider saving first or, if you > don't want any interruptions, locking messages first

Re: How to Quit with a button

2014-12-09 Thread William Prothero
Jim, Great idea! There are s many ways to do things in LC. Bill On Dec 8, 2014, at 1:58 PM, Jim Lambert wrote: > I suggested doMenu because Bill said selecting Quit from the menu worked > while a button with ‘quit’ didn’t. > > But he reports that doesn’t work for him either, so perhaps doM

Re: How to Quit with a button

2014-12-09 Thread Scott Rossi
I also use "close this stack" from the message box. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media UX/UI Design > On Dec 9, 2014, at 9:46 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > That only happens in the IDE, you can lock messages before quitting. Or, > what I usually do from the message box: del

Re: How to Quit with a button

2014-12-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
That only happens in the IDE, you can lock messages before quitting. Or, what I usually do from the message box: delete this stack. (Or you can use the menu option to remove from memory.) Then a regular quit doesn't ask. On December 9, 2014 11:25:36 AM CST, Bob Sneidar wrote: >My perennial q

Re: How to Quit with a button

2014-12-09 Thread William Prothero
Richard: Got your logger stack. I’m in a huge crunch right now, so I need to just go ahead and delete my quit button, and use the toolbar menu to quit, for a bit. I’m getting ready for a geophysics meeting in San Francisco, then Hawaii until Jan. 1. I’ll try to get to it but got a bunch of thing

Re: How to Quit with a button

2014-12-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
Any open drivers also prevent quitting, or it used to. On December 9, 2014 8:59:32 AM CST, Richard Gaskin wrote: >William Prothero wrote: > > > On Dec 8, 2014, at 2:10 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >For an app to successfully quit two conditions must be met: >1. All stacks are closed >2. All pend

Re: How to Quit with a button

2014-12-09 Thread Bob Sneidar
My perennial question is, how do I quit without saving the stack or even asking? There ought to be a “close without saving” variation. Bob S On Dec 7, 2014, at 15:25 , Colin Holgate mailto:co...@verizon.net>> wrote: Try this instead: on mouseup quit end mouseup __

Re: How to Quit with a button

2014-12-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
William Prothero wrote: There really is no code in the quit button. I just do: ——Method 1 -- on mouseUp quit end mouseUp Or: ——Method 2 -- on mouseUp send “doTheQuit” to me in 0 seconds end mouseUp on doTheQuit quit end doTheQuit I tried closing all substacks. Do I need to cl

Re: How to Quit with a button

2014-12-09 Thread William Prothero
Richard: There really is no code in the quit button. I just do: ——Method 1 -- on mouseUp quit end mouseUp Or: ——Method 2 -- on mouseUp send “doTheQuit” to me in 0 seconds end mouseUp on doTheQuit quit end doTheQuit I tried closing all substacks. Do I need to close the mainstack

Re: How to Quit with a button

2014-12-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
William Prothero wrote: > On Dec 8, 2014, at 2:10 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> Interesting. Any pending messages at the time quit is invoked? > > I tried doing “Lock messages” before the quit, and closing > unused stacks, but it didn’t seem to make any difference. > Apparently the toolbar menu q

Re: How to Quit with a button

2014-12-08 Thread William Prothero
Richard: I tried doing “Lock messages” before the quit, and closing unused stacks, but it didn’t seem to make any difference. Apparently the toolbar menu quit command does some kind of cleanup before it actually quits. Re the system log, I don’t usually try to interpret that. There is a large c

Re: How to Quit with a button

2014-12-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
William Prothero wrote: > I’ve tried a number of things to get my app to shut down without > crashing the app. I know it must be possible because the toolbar > menu quits fine. I may just stop trying to use a script to quit. > It’s not essential since the toolbar menu quits fine. Anyway, I’ve > t

Re: How to Quit with a button

2014-12-08 Thread Jim Lambert
I suggested doMenu because Bill said selecting Quit from the menu worked while a button with ‘quit’ didn’t. But he reports that doesn’t work for him either, so perhaps doMenu doesn’t really 'do menu' under the hood. If the Quit accelerator key combination also works (command-Q on Mac) then I’d

Re: How to Quit with a button

2014-12-08 Thread William Prothero
Richard: Thanks for the input. I’ll stop messing with the doMenu approach. I’ve tried a number of things to get my app to shut down without crashing the app. I know it must be possible because the toolbar menu quits fine. I may just stop trying to use a script to quit. It’s not essential since t

Re: How to Quit with a button

2014-12-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
William Prothero wrote: I got no response from the doMenu command, so perhaps I needed to include the shortcut key in the name? DoMenu is pretty limited in LiveCode. It was necessary in HyperCard because that language wasn't rich enough to build an entire IDE in, so the only way you could i

Re: How to Quit with a button

2014-12-08 Thread William Prothero
Ray and Jim: Tnx for the suggestions. Tried both. I did lock messages prior to the quit statement. I couldn’t get the toolbar menu to fire on quit. The menu is “PT_Explorer” and the item I want is “Quit PT_Explorer”. So I did domenu “Quit PT_Explorer” of menu “PT_Explorer” I got no response fro

Re: How to Quit with a button

2014-12-08 Thread Ray
I just issue the command "quit". You might consider saving first or, if you don't want any interruptions, locking messages first. On 12/8/2014 2:04 PM, Jim Lambert wrote: Prothero wrote: why won?t the button work when the toolbar menu does. Obviously, there?s a difference in the way each wor

Re: How to Quit with a button

2014-12-08 Thread Jim Lambert
> Prothero wrote: > > why won?t the button work when the toolbar menu does. Obviously, there?s a > difference in the way each works. What happens if you doMenu “Quit” from menu [appName] ? Jim Lambert ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lis

Re: How to Quit with a button

2014-12-07 Thread William Prothero
Colin: I tried closing the browser window (on the card where I had the quit button) and it still crashes. BUT, I did a test stack, made a standalone, and the quit button works. Hm. Wonder what it could be. My application stack is pretty big and complex, but ….. I don’t think any handlers are

Re: How to Quit with a button

2014-12-07 Thread Colin Holgate
A bare bones test seems not to crash. Look for any handlers you have that are still doing something at the time you quit. BTW, I was testing the idea with v7.01 rc3. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: How to Quit with a button

2014-12-07 Thread William Prothero
Colin: I did try that and it crashed the app too. That’s why I tried to delay the quit until it got through doing the mouseDown handler. Bill On Dec 7, 2014, at 3:25 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > Try this instead: > > on mouseup >quit > end mouseup > >

Re: How to Quit with a button

2014-12-07 Thread Colin Holgate
Try this instead: on mouseup quit end mouseup ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecod

How to Quit with a button

2014-12-07 Thread William Prothero
Folks: I don’t know if this is needed anyway, but I have a button on one of my screens whose intention is to quit the application. The code is; on mouseUp send “quit” to me in 0 seconds end mouseUp This crashes the application. The menu that the standalone creates, in the menu bar also