Questions tagged [quit]

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How to distinguish between different causes of app termination in Cocoa?

I would like my application to ask for confirmation before quitting, except when it's being terminated by the system during shutdown or restart (because when OS X tries to apply security updates at midnight it gets stuck on the "Are you sure?"…
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SDL 2.0 Quit Event with Multiple Windows

I'm using SDL 2.0, and decided to try out making multiple windows. Unfortunately, now I can't quit out of my program without going back to the IDE and force closing it. The event handling is as simple as possible, I am only polling for the quit…
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How do I force-quit an individual app on an actual Apple Watch (not in the simulators)?

When developing an app, it is sometimes useful to force-quit an application without having to re-start the entire device. On my iPhone, I can force-quit the active app by double-clicking the home button and swiping the app to the top. For the…
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Exit an imported module without exiting the main program - Python

I have a module called randomstuff which I import into my main program. The problem is that at times, the code being run in randomstuff needs to be stopped, without affecting the main program. I have tried exit(), quit() and a few os functions, but…
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How to quit a pygtk application after last window is closed/destroyed

Is there a way I can tell gtk to automatically call gtk.main_quit() when the last open window of the application is closed/destroyed? If there is no direct feature offering this functionality, I could think of the following: In the window's destroy…
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Debugging SHDocVw.InternetExplorer.Quit not closing iexplore.exe process

I think there's no definite answer so how would you approach debugging this problem?: My main app (a MicroStation plugin) launces IE using the SHDocVw.InternetExplorer COM wrapper, interacts with it, hides it when it is not used (e.g. intercepts…
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Mobile game restarts when using Application.Quit

Okay, so I upgrade my old 4.6 Unity project into Unity 5.0. Overall, the process was relatively painless, but now my Quit button doesn't work when I build for Android. And I get a very odd message via logcat: E/Unity (23691): RenderTexture…
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Run top, print output, then quit OR how to get real memory usage without top

I'm running Mac OS 10.6. I want to run top to get memory usage, but not in interactive mode, or any mode that updates. I just want memory usage at that point in time then return to prompt. I've looked for other utilities to get memory usage... but…
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Stop an app by calling the lifecycle callbacks

How can I stop my whole App in simple terms? (all activities, services, Threads, etc. simply everything) The life-cycle callbacks (especially onStop() and onDestroy()) should be called. Google suggests the following possible solution: kill the…
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Best way to quit android app?

I'm looking for a way to quit my android app by code. Yes, I know, I shouldn't be doing this cause android handles it when you press the back button, but I have a customized flow that forces me to implement this. I've already been searching for a…
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iOS - detect when application exits

How can I detect when a user exits the application? (hitting the home button) And how can I detect when the relaunch it? (clicking the icon) *I'm not talking about users manually quitting the app by holding the home button and then making the icons…
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does dealloc method being executed normally when quitting the application?

I use code like the following (inside my appController.m for example) to do some cleanup when my application terminates... - (void) dealloc { [myObject release]; // myObject 's dealloc will not be called either !!! [arraySMSs release]; …
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Force quit of Android App using System.exit(0) doesn't work

when I try to quit my Android application by overwriting the function for the back-button of Android devices and "System.exit(0)", this doesn't work. I have an activity named "LoginActivity" and an activity named "OverviewActivity". When I start an…
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Are there any perils with quit and exit in matlab?

I have not thought so much of this before I started learning c++ and I have not needed to terminate matlab from a program so many times before. The question just occured to me: Are there any perils in using the functions quit and exit in matlab? I…
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How to get pygame to quit after playing a song

I'm trying to use this tutorial to run pygame instead of Mplayer in my script: So, in the code: import pygame pygame.init() song = pygame.mixer.Sound(my_song.ogg) clock = pygame.time.Clock() song.play() while True: …
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