So you close one window, close another window, you're still in Safari. So even though these technically aren't documents, they're webpages, they're like documents. Of course Safari is an app where you definitely, very often, have more than one window open. It might be the reasoning why Calendar doesn't behave like a single window app. So closing the main Calendar window to have your Availability Panel open it does kind of make sense. You bring that up and that's a kind of useful thing all on its own. Now you can rationalize this a little bit because there is something called the Availability Panel. In Calendar you've got what looks like a single window app but if you click the red button it doesn't quit Calendar. There are some definite exceptions though.
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Plus the fact that of course if I'm playing music in iTunes and I want to close the window to get it out of the way I don't want iTunes to quit because the music will stop playing. So it's kind of a little bit beyond a single window app. If I close the MiniPlayer it actually automatically opens the main window. That's a second window and if I close this first window the MiniPlayer stays open. So I could go to Window and open the iTunes window or I can switch to MiniPlayer and bring that up.
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Well, this kind of makes sense because first of all there are two windows that you can have. But if I click the red button it doesn't quit. After all there is no way for me to open up a second main iTunes window. Sometimes you can rationalize why they don't work this way.
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Then there are apps that kind of fall in-between. I close the last one and it still doesn't close the app. Of course whichever one of those I close it's not going to quit the app. Now if we go to something like TextEdit that has multiple windows. Sure enough if I click the red button there Notes quits. For instance, Notes seems to be a single window app. So we can look at other apps and see how they work. You have to go to the Menu and Quit or use Command Q to actually quit the app. After all you may be closing that document in order to simply go ahead and open another one. So it goes to follow that they should be consistent and even when there's one window left when you close that one window the app stays open. You certainly don't want the entire app to Quit just because you closed one window or one document. You may have three or four documents open. Now you would imagine that when you click the red button you don't want Pages to quit because you have another document open. I have two windows right now running in Pages. If I create a new document it's in a second window. Here's Pages and we create a window that has this one document in it. Other apps have multiple windows usually because you can have multiple Docks open.įor instance the easiest way to demonstrate this is an app that undoubtedly shows you one window per document.
When you click the red button you close that single window so it quits. There's one window here that shows you your contacts and you can go and click on different ones and it displays the contact to the right. So, for instance, Contacts is a single window app. Whether or not an app really consists of a single window or whether there are multiple windows containing multiple documents used by the app. It has to do with, what I call, single window apps. Why is there a difference between how some apps act when you click the red button and other apps? So there is kind of a logic that apps play by when determining what happens when you click that red button. If I click the red button here Contacts actually closes. I'm still looking at Safari menu items here at the top. So, for instance, here I am in Safari and if I click the red button I can see Safari is still the app that's running. The confusion comes from the fact that sometimes this seems to quit the app and sometimes it doesn't quit the app. Video Transcript: So every once in awhile I get somebody asking about what actually happens when you click the red close button to close a window in an application on the Mac.
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