[Squeakland] quitting OLPC etoys
Bert Freudenberg
bert at freudenbergs.de
Thu Sep 27 08:48:41 PDT 2007
On Sep 27, 2007, at 17:42 , Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On Sep 27, 2007, at 9:34 , Randy Heiland wrote:
>
>> I honestly can't remember now what it was like w/ etoys "classic"
>> on Windows, but for OLPC etoys on OSX, I'll just comment that it
>> seems confusing that the "Quit Squeak VM" menu item is disable and
>> one quits via File->"Quit do not save". In spite of the fact that
>> I know I've just saved/kept a current project, being told to "Quit
>> do not save" strikes me as the wrong thing to say and would seem
>> to really confuse a child.
>>
>> just an observation :)
>
> You're not supposed to use that menu option ;)
>
> But I agree, this has always been distracting. Now we actually do
> support the window close request in the Etoys image. It works fine
> on Linux, when you close the Etoys window it will ask if you want
> to really quit and then you can say yes/no. We just have to find
> out how to coerce the Mac VM to also issue that event when clicking
> the window close box or choosing the quit menu item. Cc'ing John to
> explain ...
Ah. The window close button can be enabled by setting
SqueakWindowAttribute to <8200001f > in the VM's info.plist. And when
pressing it, the image indeed asks and then quits. Yay! Now we just
need to find out how to change the menu ...
- Bert -
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