In my case, my second stack *was* a substack and quit still didn't work. On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 9:42 PM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
> That's what I suspected; the stacks aren't actually substacks. Now it > makes sense. Thanks for the clarification. > > On 11/11/2015 10:59 PM, Howard Bornstein wrote: > >> The dictionary says this (from LC 6.7.5): >> >> In standalones, some care is needed to ensure you receive the >> *shutdownRequest* message if your application uses multiple stacks. The >> >> most reliable approach is to install a library stack or backscript to >> handle the message when your application starts up. >> >> I couldn't get this to work, so I went with Martin Koob's solution, which >> did work. Note that this refers to multi-stack standalones. >> >> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 7:51 PM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com >> > >> wrote: >> >> On 11/11/2015 7:54 PM, Mark Smith wrote: >>> >>> is it not the case that the message path goes from substacks >>>> to the main stack? If so, should not a "shutdownRequest" message not >>>> handled >>>> in a sub stack be passed up the message path to the main stack? In which >>>> case you don't need shutdownRequests in each sub, just in the main? >>>> >>>> >>> Yes, that's how it should work. I've been wondering why the extra >>> handlers >>> in substacks were required, I've never needed to do that and my apps have >>> always quit. I'd say go with the simpler solution and if that doesn't >>> work >>> then we can figure out why. >>> >>> -- >>> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com >>> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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-livecode >>> >>> >> >> >> > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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-livecode > -- Regards, Howard Bornstein ----------------------- www.designeq.com _______________________________________________ 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-livecode
