command period with answer dialog

[Timothy Miller]

Unless I've overlooked something, a command-period will not halt a 
script when an answer dialog is on the screen, waiting for a 
mouseclick. Ideally, command-period would cause an exit to top, it 
seems to me.

Does this represent

--a technical obstacle, possibly because of multi-platform-ism?

--a feature I don't understand?

--unintentional user unfriendliness?

Answer dialogs sometimes are the ideal tool for quick and dirty 
debugging. They are less useful if you can't interrupt a script 
immediately when an answer dialog shows you where the problem is.

Of course, one could always add an "exit" button to the answer dialog 
box, and a few more lines of script, which would cause an exit to 
top. But then it isn't quick and dirty anymore.

Just a thought. Not a real high priority issue.


Cheers,


Tim