macOS Application Quit Event?

[Fritzables]

Clicking an application's red close button up in it's top left corner, does this create the same event that is generated by using the Quit Menu option?

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Depends. If your application is a "single window" type, then the answer is yes. If it's document-based, and thus has one window for each open document, then no.

 

[Robo6675]

99% of the time, clicking the red circle doesn't close an application. When I came from a pc a couple years ago, I was confused by that too

 

[mfram]

If you have a single-window type application and want it to shut down if the main window is closed, you can modify your application delegate by adding the following method:

// Stop the application when all windows have closed.
- (BOOL)applicationShouldTerminateAfterLastWindowClosed:(NSApplication *)theApplication
{
    return TRUE;
}

Then the application will quit when the last window closes. The System Preferences app is an example of this behavior.

 

[Fritzables]

Thanks, Yea, it's the parent window I was questioning. On multi-window apps I need to take care of the close event myself.

Pete