Continue quit not working in enhanced applet

Script Debugger
#1

I have an enhanced applet which is a stay open applet with an on idle handler and an on quit handler. The continue quit command in the on quit handler is triggering an error. The first time it triggers it is caught by my script’s try statement and displays a dialog with the error message giving me the option to quit or attempt to continue using the app (which is the expected behaviour when encountering an error). If I choose quit from that dialog it triggers and error for the second time, and This time it seems to be handled by something else – I assume something in-built by Script Debugger. It displays a dialog titled “Runtime Script Error” with the message “Can’t continue quit” but ironically displays a button labelled “Quit” which, thankfully, quits the app.

I’m now using the 7.0.6 prerelease but I’m pretty sure this issue existed in 7.0.5.

Is this a known issue and is there a work around?

Enhanced applet issue quiting
#2

The failure of the continue quit command is a bug which we’ll address in the 7.0.6 maintenance release.

#3

I’m still seeing this behavior in 8.0.7, even with a minimal on quit handler:

on quit
	continue quit
end quit

Running the quit handler it results in the error Can’t continue quit.

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#4

The current behaviour is intended.

The alternatives are to allow continue quit to cause Script Debugger its self to quit or to fail silently which we don’t consider desirable.

If you want to silence this error wrap your continue quit statement in a try-end try block.