On Thursday 14 November 2002 03:05 pm, tblanchard at mac.com wrote:
> Supposing I have an object that holds some external resource - like
> a socket connection to a server.  When the vm is quit I want to
> execute a little bit of code to sign off to the server.  When the
> vm is started up again, I want to re-establish my connection.
>
> What are the startup/shutdown hooks I can use to make this happen?

startup:

add MyClass>>startUp
or MyClass>>startUp: resuming

from MyClass>>initialize, do:
Smalltalk addToStartUpList: self
or
Smalltalk addToStartUpList: self after: SomeOtherClass

shutdown:

add MyClass>>shutDown
or MyClass>>shutDown: aboutToQuit

from MyClass>>initialize, do:
Smalltalk addToShutDownList: self
or
Smalltalk addToShutDownList: self after: SomeOtherClass

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