App Exit

[Jeremy Martin]

Does anyone know a good way to do something when the application has been told to exit. I have looked throught he msdn documents at the ApplicaitonExit Event but am unable (for some reason) to have it do the action (in this case display a message box).

Jeremy

[Fat_N_Furry]

Private Sub Form1_Closing(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs) Handles MyBase.Closing
    MsgBox("", MsgBoxStyle.YesNo + MsgBoxStyle.Exclamation, "Exit")
End Sub

There you go. Have fun!


Furry

[Edneeis]

Use the Main Form's Closing Event.

[Fat_N_Furry]

Hehe too slow! Look up!

[Pirate]

well , i got a perfect idea but maybe slower one too , when the user clicks the exit button , the main form shrinks resulting msgbox-like style with two buttons . Try to Imagine that , it's really magic !!

have a nice end-from

[Fat_N_Furry]

That'd be cool!

[Edneeis]

Arrr you might be Fat_N_Furry but you got speedy little fingers

[Fat_N_Furry]

LOL! That's funny. Do you want to know how much the cat from that picture weighs? 20 LBS! He's sleeping on one of my computer chairs right now. He's all tuckered out from rolling in catnip. Hehe

[Jeremy Martin]

Actually the event doesn't seem to work, acording the documents that event does get called if the form is is being clossed by the application, only by the user.

Jeremy

[Fat_N_Furry]

OK. So you want it to display a message box when you say Me.Close()? That's easy. Just put it before the Close statement.

My mom just told me that I have to get off the internet and do something else now, so I'll see you guys in a few hours.


Furry

[Edneeis]

Actually the form close event fires regardless of who or what closes the application or even if the system is shutting down. Things like Application.Exit may force long processes to not finish or a msgbox to not appear though. This is wierd though because I had the exact opposite problem once, a msgbox in the closing event would partially hang my system when it was shutting down while the program was still loaded.

[Fat_N_Furry]

Originally posted by Edneeis
Actually the form close event fires regardless of who or what closes the application or even if the system is shutting down.

Yeah - I was doing some testing and I found that to be true...

[Jeremy Martin]

Found the problem, apprently the event doesn't fire if you click the stop button in vb.

Jeremy

[Fat_N_Furry]

Good. Glad to see you've found a solution.