On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On 05.03.2009, at 19:40, Markus Schlager wrote:
[...]
>>
>> I do know, this is the wrong mailing-list for this issue.
>
> Indeed. Why don't you bring this up on a Scratch forum?
>
Sorry, I thought of it as an issue with the VM, not with the image, since
I experienced the same behavior with an ordinary Squeak-3.9-image as well.
I was not aware, that the Etoys-Image handles this event the right way.
>>
>> Problem description:
>>
>> When running squeak with a Squeak-3.10-VM (tested with 3.10-1 and
>> 3.10-4) an ubuntu hardy, it is not possible to close squeak by closing the
>> squeak-window with Alt+F4 nor with the x-icon. It doesn't happen anything.
>
> The VM was changed to not kill the image but send it a close event. John said
> he would handle that event in the next Scratch release. I pointed him to the
> relevant changeset from the Etoys image:
>
>
http://tinlizzie.org/updates/etoys/updates/1574WindowEvents-JMM-bf.cs>
> The other platforms' VMs were changed, too, although there the new behavior
> is optional.
>
> The problem on X11 always was that it was too simple to accidentally quit
> Squeak. There was no confirmation dialog as on Windows, or a specific menu
> item as on the Mac. So I find the new behavior much safer.
I fully agree with this.
>
>> This is a real Problem when running Scratch on Linux, since this is the
>> only way to close a Scratch.
>
> Some Scratch versions do have a quit button ...
Never seen any yet.
Markus
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