Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / July 2008

In article
<1fec09ae-84d2-417f-ba3a-59eef7f87850@w7g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>,

If it's a normal, full-citizen Mac app, you send it a quit AppleEvent.

OSErr QuitApplicationByPSN(const ProcessSerialNumber* inPSN)
{
  AppleEvent theQuitEvent = {typeNull, NULL};
  AEBuildError theBuildError;
  OSErr theError = AEBuildAppleEvent(kCoreEventClass,
kAEQuitApplication,
                             typeProcessSerialNumber, inPSN,
                             sizeof(ProcessSerialNumber),
                             kAutoGenerateReturnID,
                             kAnyTransactionID,
                             &theQuitEvent,
                             &theBuildError,"");
  if(theError == noErr)
  {
     AppleEvent theReply = {};
     theError = AESend(&theQuitEvent, &theReply, kAENoReply |
kAENeverInteract,
                   kAENormalPriority, kNoTimeOut, NULL, NULL);
     (void)AEDisposeDesc(&theQuitEvent);
  }
  return theError;
}

How you get the ProcessSerialNumber to pass in depends on what you
already have.