RE: ask/answer annoyance
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 From: Richard Gaskin ambassa...@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? ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: ask/answer annoyance
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. :( -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com From: Richard Gaskin ambassa...@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? ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
RE: ask/answer annoyance
On 10.03.09 at 20:11 + 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. Robert ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: ask/answer annoyance
Robert Brenstein wrote: On 10.03.09 at 20:11 + 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. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com ___ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
