onApplication exit

> "Günther Schmidt" <[hidden email]> wrote in message
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm getting close to ship my first alpha version to the customer, Hurray!
>>
>> But there's a couple of bugs I need to eliminate first.
>>
>> I need to figure out why some views in a tabbed container initially aren't
>> properly drawn.
>>
>> There is one that won't draw itself properly unless I go to any other tab
>> and then back to it, from there on it works fine.
>>
>
> I'm afraid you would have to provide more information, and preferably a
> reproducible case.
>
>> The other thing I need to figure out is where the application exit hook
>> is. There i/is/i *onViewClosed*, but I need one that is more
>> *onViewAboutToClose* but can't find the right one yet.
>
> You should do this by hooking the #closeRequested: event triggered off the
> shell presenter. The argument is a boolean value holder. Set the value it
> holds to false to prevent the window closing. This event is fired if the
> user either attempts to close the window, or if the system is shutting down.
> Browse references to it to see how the development system usese it to prompt
> to save changes, etc.
>
>> I'm also not sure why the CTL+A shortcuts don't work on my list views.
>
> You actually need to define it as an accelerator key sequence somewhere. The
> easiest way is to add it to the Edit menu as in the development tools (just
> copy the command from one of the development tool menu bars). If you don't
> want it on the menu bar, then you can hook it in through the
> additionalAccelerators mechanism (have a look at definitions of
> #defaultAdditionalAccelerators).
>
> Regards
>
> Blair
>
>