Re: app won't quit?

My app has only one frame, so for me it's not an issue.

With the code I showed, the app quits if I press cmd-Q, select Quit from
the app menu, *or* close the only window.  That's fine—though I wouldn't
mind if (like most Mac apps) if closing the only window did *not* quit the
app.  What I don't want is for cmd-Q or Quit from the app menu to do
nothing—which is what was happening before.

Maybe there's something better to call, in my OnClose(), than
wx.GetApp().ExitMainLoop(), but I haven't yet found anything that makes the
Quit happen.


On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Charles Hartman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> \
> > I included these lines in the __init__ for my app's Frame (or rather, in
> a
> > long SetupGUI method that is called by __init__):
> >
> >         item = self.fileMenu.Append(wx.ID_EXIT,'E&xit','Terminate the
> > program')
> >         self.Bind(wx.EVT_MENU, self.OnClose, item)
> >
> > Then farther down in the Frame code I have this method:
> >
> >     def OnClose(self, item):
> >         wx.GetApp().ExitMainLoop()
> >
> > That gets exactly the behavior Mac users are used to.
>
> I'm still confused as to why you need that call to ExitMainLoop....
>
> And why this gets you Mac behavior -- the usual Mac behavior is for
> the App NOT to exit when all its Frames are closed.
>
> > for it (until I can test on a Windows machine) that it will also work
> > cross-platform.
>
> note that on any platform, I think this will cause the closing of the
> Frame to kill the App, whether or not there are other frames open --
> if you app supports having more than one frame open at a time, you
> probably don't want that.
>
>
> > Should this be posted somewhere where newbies (like me again) who are
> trying
> > to combine Mac, Python, and wxPython can find it? It is certainly not
> > obvious.
>
> This Wiki Page:
>
> http://wiki.wxpython.org/Optimizing%20for%20Mac%20OS%20X
>
> Perhaps the term "Optimizing" is a mistake in that title -- these
> aren't really optimizations...
>
> (note the the ID_EXIT is there already, but not the call to MainLoop
> (which I still don't quite get the need for..)
>
> -Chris
>
>
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>
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