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What is the difference between File > Exit and the X button?

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Mar 15, 20265321 views
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There are two common ways to exit a program in Windows: Click on in the menu bar and select from the resulting menu Click on the button in the upper right corner Assume, for the sake of this question, that you're dealing with the last window the program has open. Assume also that you're not dealing…

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One posts the command message assigned to the menu item to the window message queue, the other posts a message to the window message queue. How the application reacts to each is determined by how the window loop processes the given message.

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