ask/answer annoyance

[Richard Gaskin]

Hugh Senior wrote:
> Since it's modal, the window is blocking and has to close before anything
> can be done at all outside the modal. The only thing that springs to mind is
> you trap cmd.period in the modal itself.
> 
> 2p
> 
> /H

That's what I did, right in the answer dialog. :(

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  Richard Gaskin
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> From: Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
> Subject: ask/answer annoyance,
> 
> It's bugged me for years that we can't exit a loop if we have an answer
> or ask dialog in it.  In HC and SC you just type command-"." and it
> exits to top, but in MC/Rev it just stays in the loop, requiring you to
> either keep hitting "OK" a thousand times or force-quitting.  Arg.
> 
> I've tried modifying my answer dialog, and even tried using a
> frontScript, but it appears that trying to use "exit to top" for the
> dialog doesn't really exit to top if it's being called from a loop; it
> just keeps being called.
> 
> Am I missing something, or is this an engine bug?
> 
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