[brailleblaster] Re: Abnormal Termination
- From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 04:48:12 -0500
Please just google exit_on_close
Take care,
Sina
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Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 10:13 PM
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Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Abnormal Termination
Where should a listener for user termination be placed? How does one go about
setting up a listener?
Suppose the JVM detects a fatal runtime error? Is there a way to try to
terminate gracefully?
John
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 01:49:58AM +0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
> It won't throw an exception, its not something unexpected occurring.
> As my memory serves from seeing the SWT samples you have a loop
> checking that the application is still active, when it isn't it exits the
> loop.
> If its like other toolkits like GTK, you would have a listener for the
> event when the main window is destroyed, which would then tell the
> application its time to exit.
>
> Also on linux you shouldn't kill it with control+c, again go through
> the proper toolkit way of notifying things of exiting, closing the
> main window would seem the logical event to trigger the exit code. As
> you are listening for the window close event you need not know how the
> user caused that, alt+f4, command+q, selecting exit from the menu, etc.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On 27/11/10 01:24, John J. Boyer wrote:
> >I am talking about the Java program as a whole. Alt-f4 terminatges
> >GUI programs on Windows. What is the corresponding keystroke o n the Mac?
> >The subcommands will usually start the GUI in special modes, such as
> >a bare-bones text editor. So if a user hits alt-f4 I suppose the jre
> >will throw an exception. I want to catch that exception and try to
> >terminate gracefully. Can I do it in the main method?
> >
> >John
> >
> >On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 11:27:12AM -0800, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
> >>Hi John,
> >>
> >>Are we talking on the command-line or from the GUI? The commands you
> >>listed for the Mac nd Linux are the ones used to xit programs on the
> >>command-line before they have completed.
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>Alex,
> >>
> >>
> >>On 2010-11-26, at 11:09 AM, John J. Boyer wrote:
> >>
> >>>What happens of someone gets disgusted with the way things are
> >>>going and hits alt-f4 in Windows or control-c in Mac or Linux?
> >>>Suppose a fatal runtime error occurs? What exceptions will Java
> >>>throw? Can I catch them in the main method and attempt to clean things up
> >>>before exiting?
> >>>
> >>>Thanks,
> >>>John
> >>>
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