Actually, this all seems like a Windows "bug" to me.
A language like LiveCode, should, if I script 'quit', do exactly that -
quit. If there are any open anythings preventing that, the engine should
shut them all down for us.
Now as a software developer, I agree that good programming practice is
for the developer's code to close out anything they started or opened
explicitly. But the spirit of LiveCode is to be forgiving and easy for
non-programmers to make use of and that seems to me that it should clean
up for us if we don't.
On 5/23/2019 11:38 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
It's not just fonts, anything that's still in use needs to be removed.
Fonts, stacks in use, open processes, com ports, sockets, etc.
Basically you need to shut down everything the stack opened.
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On May 23, 2019 8:14:59 AM Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
If it is a requirement for any loaded fonts to be unloaded from memory
for a Standalone to actually quit under Microsoft Windows then a bug
should be entered at https://quality.livecode.com/ to update the
Dictionary entries for:
closeStackRequest
shutDownRequest
quit
start using font
stop using font
To note that any loaded font resources must be unloaded to allow a
Windows standalone to properly exit.
On 5/23/2019 10:41 AM, Eller, Roger via use-livecode wrote:
I do this to cleanly exit my Windows standalone, which is a
splashscreen stack.
Because I have used a couple of fonts that I keep with the
standalone, I have to STOP USING them, else the process will still
continue to run.
This handler is in my visible stack, not in the standalone
splashscreen stack.
on closeStackRequest
set the itemDel to "/"
put item 1 to -2 of the effective filename of this stack &
"/Resources/TrajanPro" into tPath
put quote & tPath & "/TrajanPro-Regular.otf" & quote into
tTrajanProRegular
put quote & tPath & "/TrajanPro-Bold.otf" & quote into
tTrajanProBold
stop using font file tTrajanProRegular
stop using font file tTrajanProBold
close this stack
quit
end closeStackRequest
~Roger
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