[SDL] Alt-F4 not working on Windows

[Mason Wheeler]

Windows (or any operating system) can't gracefully terminate any non-trivial program.  The program has to gracefully terminate itself with its own cleanup routines to take care of allocated memory, temporary files, network connections, and howevermany other things.

----- Original Message ----
From: Jeff <j_post at pacbell.net>
To: A list for developers using the SDL library. (includes SDL-announce) <sdl at lists.libsdl.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 8:10:16 PM
Subject: Re: [SDL] Alt-F4 not working on Windows

>On Wed April 30 2008 15:49, Mason Wheeler wrote:
>>
>> <ALT>-<F4> is  a Windows standard.
>>
>Which means it's not a standard. If it should be a standard *for Windows*, 
>then it's up to *Windows* to handle it by gracefully terminating the program. 
>If that's the way you want it to work, complain to Bill Gates.
>
>Jeff