Just a guess that you are using alert() for debugging. I find that info,
debug, warn or
error work smoothly because they are silent and they are logged in the Shoes
console/log window.
--Tom
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Phlip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Shoeists:
>
> Here's a nice little issue:
>
> animate 5 do
> alert('yo?')
> end
>
> You can't easily escape from that. This is not an issue for end-users, if
> their programmers are careful, but it is indeed an issue for programmers,
> who should be encouraged to write alert() anywhere, without remembering if
> they are somewhere inside an animate{}.
>
> The workaround is to escape the dialog (Gtk) and immediately click the
> window's close button.
>
> The best fix I have seen, in old script environments like UEdit, is...
>
> - all "requestors" have a cancel button
> - the cancel button raises a special exception
> - the environment (in this case the app object containing
> the animation) silently absorbs the exception
> - the animation would stop
>
> That pattern allows Cancel to gracefully roll-back any committed user
> action.
>
> --
> Phlip
>
