Launching and configuring terminal window from oF application

i am on OS X 10.10 with OF 0.8.4

this works:

system("osascript -e 'tell application \"Terminal\" to quit'");

but when i try that on a OF compiled app the app does not quit.

for example:

 system("osascript -e 'tell application \"opencvHaarFinderExampleDebug\" to quit'")

any ideas why?

using automator to quit the OF app works but as i said with Apple Script it doesn't