Warn before quit

[Richard Gaskin]

Karl Becker wrote:

> I'm having a problem with displaying a warning prompt before a user quits my
> program. 
> 
> I've put catches to intercept a quit in the following handlers:
> on closeStackRequest
> on closeStack 
> in the menuGroup I've created, inside the "Quit" menu option, and I also
> intercept "Quit MetaCard" and "Quit Tiger's Eye Pub" (the name of my app)
> 
> It seems that my app does show the prompt (twice, actually) when I click to
> close the window.  However, when I either:
> * select Quit Tiger's Eye Pub - or -
> * hit command-Q 
> the program simply quits, even though I have the script inserted into my
> menuGroup to properly catch the "Quit" message.  In fact, it shows the answer
> dialog I'm using very briefly before it quits out of the entire program.  So
> it's working, just that the answer dialog is not stopping the program for
> quitting. 
> 
> How can I get it to actually stop the Quit?

See the shutDownRequest system message.

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