Quote: If a return value is not 0 the program can handle an exit request at a more convenient time if necessary.
 After being read, the _EXIT value is reset to 0 so store the value when a program delays an exit request.
 Note: Once _EXIT has been used once, you must monitor your program by checking it for user _EXIT requests.
 Don't just use _EXIT once to prevent a user from exiting a program early, as that constitutes bad practice.

(06-04-2023, 05:38 PM)TempodiBasic Wrote: @NasaCow

on wikipage of _EXIT you find these instructions:

Quote: If a return value is not 0 the program can handle an exit request at a more convenient time if necessary.
 After being read, the _EXIT value is reset to 0 so store the value when a program delays an exit request.
 Note: Once _EXIT has been used once, you must monitor your program by checking it for user _EXIT requests.
 Don't just use _EXIT once to prevent a user from exiting a program early, as that constitutes bad practice.

....
can you find another way to manage the issue about closing by brute force your program?

(06-04-2023, 05:38 PM)TempodiBasic Wrote: @NasaCow

on wikipage of _EXIT you find these instructions:

Quote: If a return value is not 0 the program can handle an exit request at a more convenient time if necessary.
 After being read, the _EXIT value is reset to 0 so store the value when a program delays an exit request.
 Note: Once _EXIT has been used once, you must monitor your program by checking it for user _EXIT requests.
 Don't just use _EXIT once to prevent a user from exiting a program early, as that constitutes bad practice.

....
can you find another way to manage the issue about closing by brute force your program?

(06-04-2023, 08:35 PM)TerryRitchie Wrote:

(06-04-2023, 05:38 PM)TempodiBasic Wrote: @NasaCow

on wikipage of _EXIT you find these instructions:

Quote: If a return value is not 0 the program can handle an exit request at a more convenient time if necessary.
 After being read, the _EXIT value is reset to 0 so store the value when a program delays an exit request.
 Note: Once _EXIT has been used once, you must monitor your program by checking it for user _EXIT requests.
 Don't just use _EXIT once to prevent a user from exiting a program early, as that constitutes bad practice.

....
can you find another way to manage the issue about closing by brute force your program?

I just include _EXIT in my checks for the user wanting to leave the program:

Foo = _EXIT

DO
   .
   . <code>
   .
LOOP UNTIL _KEYDOWN(27) OR _EXIT ' ESC pressed or window X clicked

(06-04-2023, 11:59 PM)NasaCow Wrote:

(06-04-2023, 05:38 PM)TempodiBasic Wrote: @NasaCow

on wikipage of _EXIT you find these instructions:

Quote: If a return value is not 0 the program can handle an exit request at a more convenient time if necessary.
 After being read, the _EXIT value is reset to 0 so store the value when a program delays an exit request.
 Note: Once _EXIT has been used once, you must monitor your program by checking it for user _EXIT requests.
 Don't just use _EXIT once to prevent a user from exiting a program early, as that constitutes bad practice.

....
can you find another way to manage the issue about closing by brute force your program?

Well, that's what I am trying to figure out by copying the wiki example. I was just trying to get it to system out still without doing anything else but it also said you need to an initial _EXIT to enable the use.

(06-04-2023, 08:35 PM)TerryRitchie Wrote:

(06-04-2023, 05:38 PM)TempodiBasic Wrote: @NasaCow

on wikipage of _EXIT you find these instructions:
....
can you find another way to manage the issue about closing by brute force your program?

I just include _EXIT in my checks for the user wanting to leave the program:

Foo = _EXIT

DO
   .
   . <code>
   .
LOOP UNTIL _KEYDOWN(27) OR _EXIT ' ESC pressed or window X clicked

This is actually a great idea, will force run all my normal saving routinues. Does _EXIT in this case retain it value so I can system out afterwards or should I set a flag to retain the value of _EXIT? (Pressing the 'X' multiple times to system out may annoy the user...)

(06-05-2023, 12:31 AM)TerryRitchie Wrote:

(06-04-2023, 11:59 PM)NasaCow Wrote:

(06-04-2023, 05:38 PM)TempodiBasic Wrote: @NasaCow

on wikipage of _EXIT you find these instructions:
....
can you find another way to manage the issue about closing by brute force your program?

Well, that's what I am trying to figure out by copying the wiki example. I was just trying to get it to system out still without doing anything else but it also said you need to an initial _EXIT to enable the use.

(06-04-2023, 08:35 PM)TerryRitchie Wrote: I just include _EXIT in my checks for the user wanting to leave the program:

Foo = _EXIT

DO
   .
   . <code>
   .
LOOP UNTIL _KEYDOWN(27) OR _EXIT ' ESC pressed or window X clicked

This is actually a great idea, will force run all my normal saving routinues. Does _EXIT in this case retain it value so I can system out afterwards or should I set a flag to retain the value of _EXIT? (Pressing the 'X' multiple times to system out may annoy the user...)

I've never really checked for this. I've always made sure to include an _EXIT check in all my loops where I feel a user may want to leave. I would assume _EXIT contains a testable value only when the X close button is depressed on a window. It would be easy enough to do the following to be sure _EXIT is captured:

Foo = _EXIT
Leave = 0

DO
    .
    IF _EXIT THEN Leave = -1
    .
    . <more code>
    .
LOOP UNTIL _KEYDOWN(27) OR Leave

You could:

DIM SHARED Leave AS INTEGER

somewhere at the top of your code. That way, if you enter another sub/function within the <more code> area that sub/function can set Leave appropriately as well and it will retain the value when sub/function exits. You could even have a check at the beginning of the other subs/functions:

IF Leave THEN EXIT SUB ' or EXIT FUNCTION

that would immediately exit a sub/function if Leave was already previously set. No need to continue further if the user is wanting to exit. Just a few thoughts.

_Title "_Exit Demo by Steve"

Dim Shared a As _Integer64



If _Exit Then System 'If you've clicked the exit button before we've did

'                    anything more than display a screen and a title,

'                    let's just give up and quit early and call it a day!



'  The whole point to this early call to _EXIT is to disable the auto-exit and just

'to let our program know that we're going to manually be checking for it from now on.



Do 'a main loop to do whatever we want

    Cls

    a = a + 1

    Print "Whee!  I'm ah counting! "; a

    _Limit 100 'I'm going to count 100 counts per second.

    If _Exit Then Shutdown 'Here we check our exit flag and if it's called, we jump to the shutdown routine.

Loop 'and I'm going to run forever and ever and ever and ever (as long as no one exits the program)





Sub Shutdown

    Print

    Print "Oh nos!  You have found my weakness and shut me down after I have ah only counted ta"; a

    a$ = "This is the end of ah me!"

    For i = 1 To Len(a$)

        Print Mid$(a$, i, 1); "..";

        _Delay .2

    Next

    _Delay 2

    Beep

    Print "And now I is ended!"

    System

End Sub

(06-05-2023, 09:09 PM)bplus Wrote: Looks allot like my demo
https://qb64phoenix.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1713&pid=16301#pid16301