Jeremy, does 4D post an option close to each window? you could place an inis button on the form to catch it - you should not have to, but... it might stop the problem.
Are all the windows in the same process? or different processes? Chip On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 22:51:45 +0100, Jeremy Roussak via 4D_Tech wrote: > Miyako, > > In all honesty, I don’t really care about the splash screen; it > belongs to 4D and 4D can make it behave as it wishes; if I don’t > like it, I needn’t use the splash screen mechanism at all and, as > Keith observes, it’s not a tragedy if it closes. I mentioned it only > for completeness. > > What does bother me is the closing of input windows with no chance > for the user to intervene and say “hang on - I made those changes > and I don’t want you to throw them away without asking me”. That > doesn’t seem right. > > Jeremy > >> On 10 Oct 2019, at 22:44, Keisuke Miyako via 4D_Tech >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> thank you for sharing, >> >> so if that is the case, I suppose we can say that... >> >> the splash screen is not a dialog; On Close Box is not applicable by >> default. >> to prevent it from closing, you could use DIALOG in the application >> process. >> that said, starting a DIALOG (event loop) in On Startup is a very bad idea. >> you are never finished booting the app. >> >>> 2019/10/09 7:51、kculotta via 4D_Tech <[email protected]>のメール: >>> >>> All true what you said, with some observations (17.3): >>> >>> If On Close Box is checked, an input window gets the event, but >>> does not close. An output window did close. >>> If not checked an input window will close, revealing the output >>> window it was opened from (when DIALOG was called without OPEN >>> WINDOW being called first). >>> The windows were created with "DIALOG(outputForm)". >>> >>> I saw the application window close, but was able to >>> option-command-E to get the Explorer. > > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:[email protected] > ********************************************************************** We have done so much, with so little, for so long; We are now qualified to anything with nothing <sigh> - unknown ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
