Re: FileQuit Menu Item

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Jim

James Wagner
Oregon Research Electronics
http://www.orelectronics.net <http://www.orelectronics.net/>




> On Apr 14, 2018, at 4:32 PM, Paul Young <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Jim,
> 
> You have been a great help.  Thank you for sharing your expertise.  I would never have considered trying that.
> 
> Paul Young
> 
>> On Apr 14, 2018, at 7:09 PM, Jim Wagner <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>> That was what I found on a couple of applications of that compiler era. I had a simple quit statement in the close event, and it would crash, 95% of the time. As soon as I added a CancelClose event handler and put an additional quit there, everything seemed stable and reliable.
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
>> James Wagner
>> Oregon Research Electronics
>> http://www.orelectronics.net <http://www.orelectronics.net/>
>> 
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>>> On Apr 14, 2018, at 4:00 PM, Paul Young <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>>> Jim,
>>> 
>>> Some years ago I deleted the File menu on some of my apps because I expected to use the Red Close button on Window1 to quit the app (and did not need to Open/Save a file, etc).  I see that that was a serious mistake now that we need to compile 64 bit code.
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>>> I found that adding a new MenuBar1 is not as simple as I expected for several reasons.
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>>> I would like to pursue your second comment and enable the Red Close button.  I do not use a CancelQuit event in my app.   The code in my Window1 Close event handler is very simple:  Save the Preferences and then Quit.
>>> 
>>> Did you mean that I should add a CancelClose event to Window1 and add Quit as the code?
>>> 
>>> Paul Young 
>>> 
>>>> On Apr 14, 2018, at 11:30 AM, Jim Wagner <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>>>> You may have to add your own Quit menu handler.
>>>> 
>>>> In some apps, I found that I needed to add a quit command to the CancelQuit event. If I did not, it would crash as you describe.
>>>> 
>>>> Jim
>>>> 
>>>> James Wagner
>>>> Oregon Research Electronics
>>>> http://www.orelectronics.net <http://www.orelectronics.net/>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>>>> On Apr 14, 2018, at 8:26 AM, Paul Young <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>>>>> I am using Xojo 2017 Release 3 for Mac to compile for 64 bits.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Using the Red Close button on Window1 results in an exception thrown about one out of twenty times when compiling for 64 bits.  I have disabled the Red Close button and plan to use the Command-Q shortcut to quit the app.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Problem:  I have FileQuit at the bottom of MenuBar1 menu items and Command-Q does close the app but I do not see Quit under the File menu item when the app is running in the IDE or when compiled.  I do see the other File menu items.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Why is this?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Paul Young
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