[Riscosnet-users] Re: POPStar Shutdown Behaviour

[Adam <li...@sn...>]

In message <4DA091F304%s...@yo...uk> you wrote:

> In message <286...@sn...> you wrote:
> 
> > I've been fiddling around with POPStar (2.06-ds.5) and have discovered
> > that it seems to act a little oddly with respect to Pre-Quit/Quit
> > messages. In particular, if it's in the middle of a fetch/send when you
> > choose shutdown, it just aborts & quits - shouldn't it give the nice
> > little "are you sure you want to quit" window?
> 
> It does.

Huh. <red-faced> It's seems to be working fine here now. I can't remember
how I was generating the problem before - I'll let you know if I manage to
replicate it again.


> 
> > And it should definitely not bring the shutdown process to a grinding halt.
> 
> Why? It should - by responding to the prequit message iff a transfer is in
> progress. And it does this.

Yes, I think I was referring to the fact that it didn't set the shutdown
process going again after it quit - but since I can't replicate my problem
now, I can't be sure!


> Although I see that you're using 4.39, which has a gratuitously-broken
> WindowManager...

Oh :-( And there was me expecting progress with an upgrade! In what
particular ways is it broken? (Not got anything to do with strange plotting
of sprites has it?)


> > - of course a better solution would be if you added a "send mail before
> > shutdown" option!!
> 
> True :-)

Ooh - does that mean you might implement it? :-)

Adam

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