Re: How do I terminate CWinApp application?

From:
"Scott McPhillips [MVP]" <org-dot-mvps-at-scottmcp>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:36:04 -0400
Message-ID:
<kvCdnSA994WV-DLbnZ2dnUVZ_u6rnZ2d@comcast.com>
Alan Williams-Key wrote:

Sorry if this has been dealt with before..
I have a CWinApp application which has to read an validate a lot of data
from files at start up. In some circumstances it is possible for the files to
contain a fata error in the formatting from which my application cannot
recover. I want to close the applicaiton down cleanly. I have tried:

AfxGetApp()->CloseAllDocuments(TRUE);
ExitProcess(0);

While this works find in debug configuration, when I try it out on the
release version it goes very wrong and I get an error message

The instruction at "0x&c809783" referenced memory at "0x003f4544". The
memory could not be written. Click OK to terminate the program.

I have looked in the disassembly view an there is no valid program at
"0x&c809783", just question marks.

What is the correct way to abnormally terminate a CWinApp application?


If you are still in InitInstance return FALSE. Otherwise
AfxGetMainWnd()->PostMessage(WM_CLOSE, 0, 0);

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