How to exit a Kivy application using a button

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Ballew picture Ballew · Sep 6, 2015 · Viewed 25.4k times · Source

I'm just learning Python and the Kivy framework. I can't seem to find any specific complete examples of being able to gracefully exit a Kivy app using code linked to a button.

I have found Kivy code snippets like this

Button:
    id:btnExit
    text:"Exit"
    on_press: app.Exit()

But not any matching code that implements the app.Exit() call. Everything I've tried stops code execution but doesn't clean up the program window.

I've read that Android and iOS style guides state that a program is not to programmatically exit and let the OS handle it but I am developing fullscreen borderless Desktop app and need a way to exit the program with a button press.

Answer

Ruben G picture Ruben G · Jan 24, 2016

Use App.stop(*largs):

Button:
    id: btnExit
    text: "Exit"
    on_press: app.stop()

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