application terminate doesn't call form destroy ???

Billy Verreynne

Delphi Developer

Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

application terminate doesn't call form destroy ???

Rob Davis <Rob.Da...@unn.ac.uk> wrote in article
<34101966.10792...@news.unn.ac.uk>...

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> My problem is that if the application is ended via a close down of
> windows or application.terminate these normal close down routines
> appear to be short circuited and no entry is made in the loggedin
> table, nor, I assume, are the databases closed correctly.

> Would anyone have any suggestions as what I might do? Is there an
> application message OnTerminate that I might intercept ? Can anyone
> shed any light on this please ?

Hmm... I think that you're only intercepting the WM_CLOSE message using the
CloseForm method and not the WM_QUIT message. I recall that there was also
a WM_SHUTDOWN message to back in win16. I suggest that you add some
additional message methods to your form class for these events.

regards,
Billy

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