[squeak-dev] Re: Avoiding the VM-Quit Dialog under Windows

Jens Moenig jens at moenig.org
Fri Oct 24 21:19:28 UTC 2008


Wow Andreas! You're the man :)
Thank you so much!


Andreas Raab wrote:
> 
> Hi Jens -
> 
> I just finished uploading a new VM (3.10.8) which generates a window 
> close event when the EnableAltF4Quit preference is turned off. I've 
> tested it with the etoys4 image and it works as expected (for both the 
> close button as well as Alt-F4):
> 
>    http://squeakvm.org/win32/release/SqueakVM-Win32-3.10.8-bin.zip
>    http://squeakvm.org/win32/settings.html
> 
> Cheers,
>    - Andreas
> 
> Jens Moenig wrote:
>> Yes, Michael, I already know that much. But this setting just *disables*
>> Alt-F4 as well as the close button. It does not, however, notify my image
>> of
>> any VM-WindowEvents, or does it?
>> 
>> What I want to accomplish is this:
>> 
>> Whenever the user presses the VM's close button I want to be receiving
>> some
>> kind of #windowClose event, which my application can react to. I've seen
>> all
>> the necessary code in the new Etoys image, and I've read about these
>> events
>> in a post by Ian Piumarta (from last year, I think) in the Linux-VM. So,
>> I
>> guess my question is: Does the current (or newest) Win32-VM support these
>> WindowEvents at all, because to me it doesn't seem so? (but it would be
>> sooooo useful!)
>> 
>> -Jens
>> 
>> 
>> Michael Rueger wrote:
>>>
>>> if you use a current VM adding
>>> EnableAltF4Quit=0
>>>
>>> to the .ini does the trick. It controls both F4 and the window close 
>>> button behavior.
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>>
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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