Re: PostQuitMessage from a dll

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From: Peter Below (TeamB)
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 10:18

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In article <3ddf0014@newsgroups.borland.com>, D.Pierce wrote:
> I'm writing a Delphi app which calls some functions in a C dll. In the dll a
> certain error condition causes the dll to call PostQuitMessage() to
> terminate the app. The code in the dll was originally part of a C program
> which I turned into a dll so I could continue to use it with Delphi.
> 
> I'm wondering, can a Delphi app be safely terminated this way or do I have a
> lot of rewriting of my dll code ahead of me?

If you look at TApplication.ProcessMessage in forms.pas you'll see that it 
handles WM_QUIT by setting FTerminated to true, so it is completely equivalent 
to calling Application.Terminate.

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