"wait until" or "repeat until" (with a wait) for modal dialog wait?

[Bob Sneidar]

What I do is try to telnet into the database first using shell commands. 

Bob S


> On Jun 13, 2015, at 15:20 , Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Mark Schonewille <
>> m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> You're right, the debugger doesn't like modal windows. It looks like you
>>> actually don't have a problem :-)
>>> 
>>> My favorite kind of problem :)
>> 
> 
> On league review, it appears that I *do* have a problem:  what led to this
> was coding around one of live codes brutal flaws, that the timeout cannot
> be set on OS X (and linux? mobile?) for revOpenDatabase.
> 
> So when it *does* timeout, it probably means that the server has moved, or
> something else.  The driving point of this exercise was to be able to offer
> choices, including opening my preferences stack when database opening
> failed.  Also to open the preferences stack before attempting to connect if
> the option key is down on launch.
> 
> But a regular stack loses it's normal ability to close when opened modally
> . . .
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