is there any trick to get out of a modal stack hang?

Devin Asay devin_asay at byu.edu
Thu Jul 11 10:48:44 EDT 2013


On Jul 11, 2013, at 6:18 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> sometimes I get stuck when running into a script error, while having a modal
> stack open and my close button of the modal stack doesn't responds anymore.
> The modal stack prevents me to get into the message box, IDE, or anything
> else.
> 
> Is there a trick to get a modal stack without title boxes closed on windows
> with LC 6.1 e.g. by a keyboard shortcut? Or is a full close via task manager
> the only solution? Alt + F4 and Ctrl + period don't work either.


Tiemo,

Have you tried Control-Shift-Right-click? That should bring up a contextual popup menu. One of the items should be TopLevel, to change the stack from modal to top-level.

HTH

Devin

Devin Asay
Office of Digital Humanities
Brigham Young University





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