ask/answer annoyance

[Richard Gaskin]

Robert Brenstein wrote:
> On 10.03.09 at 20:11 +0000 Hugh Senior apparently 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
>>
> 
> Modifying the dialog to trap cmd-. is doable. However, the problem is 
> how to pass that cmd-. further -- as Richard explained, the exit to top 
> does not work as expected, that is the script exists to top within the 
> dialog stack while the calling script continues.
> 
> I wonder whether it is possibly to send cmd-. (in time) while closing 
> the dialog. It should either carry over to the loop below or auto-cancel 
> the next dialog popping up.
> 
> A workabout I use is to have a cancel button in such a dialog and check 
> for cancel in the looping script.

Yes, at the moment it appears that canceling within the script that 
calls a modal is necessary for "exit to top" to be honored.  There's a 
request to change that to honor it from wherever it's called, but in the 
meantime we have to handle it in the calling handler.

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