Hi Christoph,

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 4:35 AM Thiede, Christoph <
Christoph.Thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:

> Hi Eliot,
>
> I did not ever work with the VM simulator, but from what you say, I guess
> that your modal dialog might simply lack a third button labeled "Quit"?
>

That doesn't work for me because the modal dialog emerges from a
subcomponent (the FilePlugin) not from the VM level itself.  It is from a
plugin in the VM, and making that dialog able to reach out and smite the
entire VM feels like working out-of-bounds.


> In general, to me, the idea of modal windows appears to require an
> immediate user response that precedes any different user interactions with
> the notifying view. If this assumption is violated, many models might show
> bad behavior.* I would rather prefer not to change this behavior. :)
>
> * For an example, do-it |x| (sic, just three characters) in a workspace.
> Disable modal exclusivity of the appearing Unused Variable dialog, clear
> the Workspace and then answer the dialog. Of course, you will get an
> internal compiler error ...
>

Would you?  Why wouldn't you discard the entire compilation continuation?
That is what I would expect t.  So killing the dialog effectively kills the
process up to the point of invoking the Unused Variable dialog.  It would
not allow computation to continue.  What should happen is the current
process is terminated, a new UI process created, and the user be free to
interact with the UI afresh.

> Best,
>
> Christoph
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> *Von:* Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org> im
> Auftrag von Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 10. Januar 2020 00:58:18
> *An:* The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> *Betreff:* [squeak-dev] Closing modal dialogs...
>
> Hi All,
>
>     would it be easy to modify modal dialog box interaction to allow
> closing the "parent window" of a dialog while in the modal dialog?  In the
> VMSimulator I use a modal dialog to prompt the user for input to evaluate,
> to test the sim.  Often I simply want to stop after the first expression
> and so wish to diss,iss the entire simulation omg the second modal dialog.
> Bit I'm always forced to select "don't be modal" before I can close the
> thing.  It;'s a little annoying.
>
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