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Bug 576

Summary: ALT-F4 does not generate an SDL_QUIT event on Windows
Product: SDL Reporter: Christoph Kobe <christoph>
Component: eventsAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2 CC: tim
Version: 1.2.13Keywords: target-1.2.14
Hardware: x86   
OS: Windows (XP)   

Description Christoph Kobe 2008-05-01 06:04:02 UTC 
Pressing ALT-F4 to close an SDL window does not work. No SDL_QUIT event is generated.

On Windows ALT-F4 is used to send a WM_DESTROY message to a window so the application can terminate. I've looked into SDL_sysevents.c and found out that no WM_DESTROY event is generated when pressing ALT-F4.

This probably has something to do with grabbing keyboard input.

The release notes of version 1.2.10 say:

Pressing ALT-F4 now delivers an SDL_QUIT event to SDL applications.

But unfortunatly this isn't true even for 1.2.10.
Comment 1 Ryan C. Gordon 2009-09-13 16:33:27 UTC 
Tagging this bug with "target-1.2.14" so we can try to resolve it for SDL 1.2.14.

Please note that we may choose to resolve it as WONTFIX. This tag is largely so we have a comprehensive wishlist of bugs to examine for 1.2.14 (and so we can close bugs that we'll never fix, rather than have them live forever in Bugzilla).

--ryan.
Comment 2 Tim Angus 2009-09-17 03:11:53 UTC 
c.f. bug #619.
Comment 3 Sam Lantinga 2009-09-26 23:51:40 UTC 
I'm hesitant to change behavior at this point in SDL 1.2 development.  You're always welcome to catch ALT-F4 yourself and shut down the application.