[racket] Notification when window is closed
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Antonio Menezes Leitao
<antonio.menezes.leitao at ist.utl.pt> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Robby Findler
> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>> My first guess is that the right way to do this is to use custodians
>> to do this shutdown, not closing the window (and perhaps make closing
>> the window shutdown the custodian, depending). Generally speaking,
>> custodians are the abstraction that Racket uses to manage the clean
>> shutdown of external state (like network connections, open files, open
>> windows, etc).
>
> Sounds like a good idea. Is it possible to register a finalizer in a
> custodian? Or something similar that allows me to call an FFI function.
I'm not as familiar with this layer of Racket, but I think you
probably want to start with scheme_add_managed and that region of the
manuals.
hth,
Robby