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From: dwb@well.UUCP (David W. Berry)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Closing DAs
Message-ID: <1693@well.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-Aug-86 08:17:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.1693
Posted: Fri Aug 29 08:17:28 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 29-Aug-86 21:31:38 EDT
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Reply-To: dwb@well.UUCP (David W. Berry)
Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito CA
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In article <49@runx.OZ> baron@runx.OZ (Jason Haines) writes:
>
>If you have a number of open DAs, and you quit from the current application, 
>all the DAs are killed without allowing them to clean up (save files,etc.).
>Isn't it possible for an application to keep track of the open DAs, and their
>refnums (which can be found from the windowKind field of its window), so that 
>when it exits to shell, it first calls CloseDeskAcc for all open DAs??
	Yah, you could, but why bother.  If the DA is correctly written
and needs to know if the application is going out from under it so it can
save files or whatever elses is appropriate it should have the dNeedGoodBye
bit set in it's flags word.  That way it will receive a "goodbye kiss"
when the application exits.  The kiss comes in the form of a control
call with a csParam of -1.
-- 
	David W. Berry
	dwb@well.uucp                   dwb@Delphi
	dwb@GEnie                       293-0752@408.MaBell