Re: Close button on Single Window Utilities

FROM : Wade Tregaskis
DATE : Tue Nov 19 15:35:45 2002

Your app should quit on window close if:

   (a) It has only one window (excluding any sheets/drawers that may be
attached)
   (b) It has no reason to run all the time

   Working Example:  Address Book (address book functionality available
through system frameworks, not through Address Book app)
   Broken Example:  System Preferences (should quit when window closed)


Your app should *not* quit on window close if:

   (a) It is document based or in most other ways multi-window
   (b) It needs to be running to perform it's duties

   Working Examples:  iTunes (must remain open to play music),
Preview/TextEdit/etc (document based, therefore you may wish to
open/create a document at some point)


On a personal note, it drives me insane that System Preferences won't
get lost when I close it.  If I wanted it open all the time, I wouldn't
close it's one and only window.

Wade Tregaskis
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