B4J Question [ Steam Client ] Closes the Form, but doesn't kill the application .

Waldemar Lima · Jul 15, 2021

I'm making a game for steam ( steampowered.com ) it works fine, but when I try to "kill" the game via SteamClient by clicking on "Stop Run",

the Form closes, but the application keeps running and it's only killed when I I go to the B4J client and click on "Kill Process", is there any way I can handle the request to close the game by the steam client?

William Lancee · Jul 18, 2021

I looked at your code, and what sticks out for me as for @LucaMs is the B4XPages.ShowPageAndRemovePreviousPages

It rare that you need to RemovePreviousPages in B4Xpages. In fact I don't recall having to use it.

Why don't you ty it with just ShowPage. Think of them being in a stack (which they are) that they behave quite orderly.

Unfortunately, even with downloading the Libraries, I could not get SteamWorks to work. I'm afraid I can't take time to find out why.

Waldemar Lima · Jul 18, 2021

William Lancee said:
Unfortunately, even with downloading the Libraries, I could not get SteamWorks to work. I'm afraid I can't take time to find out why.

do u have steam client installed on your PC ?

LucaMs · Jul 18, 2021

Waldemar Lima said:
do u have steam client installed on your PC ?

Maybe you could explain it all better, from the beginning.

Now you ask if he/we have a Steam client installed, but from what you've written so far it was clear that you wanted to create a client for a (that) game server (but in the video you use a browser, if I'm not mistaken).

So... we just don't know how this is supposed to work, what the purpose of your B4J project is and... everything, in short.

William Lancee said:
I looked at your code, and what sticks out for me as for @LucaMs is the B4XPages.ShowPageAndRemovePreviousPages

I had forgotten about it and above all initially I did not realize that it was B4XPages-B4J.
In this case, to have a single page-form open, it is necessary to use ShowPageAndRemovePreviousPages. To return to the previous page later, however, it is necessary to open it explicitly, using ShowOpen ("mainpage"), in this case.

Waldemar Lima · Jul 21, 2021

hello All !

received a reply from the Steam support team >

Hi there,

The behavior of the Steam 'Stop' button is different depending on the platform (Windows, MacOS, or Linux). On Windows, Steam will send a WM_CLOSE message to the app's Windows. Elsewhere, a kill signal is sent to the game's process.

From your depot, it looks like your game is a Java-based game. It's possible that your game isn't properly handling the WM_CLOSE event. You may need to import the appropriate Windows DLL to interact with the Windows message pump and properly handle that message.

I would recommend posting your question on the Steamworks Development community forum. It is very likely that a developer there has encountered (and potentially resolved) the same issue that you have.

Best,
Steam Support Team

is there any way to treat or differentiate between a WM_CLOSE or if it was a user click on the window's close button?

William Lancee · Jul 21, 2021

I don't know. But you should put some logs in the Main module MainForm_Closed and MainForm_CloseRequest.

Run you App from the IDE. You should see the App being killed at the bottom in the Log panel.

If no logs then you're out of luck.

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