On Oct 23, 2008, at 1:26 AM, antonio wrote:
Is not possible to get the control after neither with Alt +. !?
As long as a runaway script keeps "ticking", a debugger brought up by alt-dot can never retain control long enough to be operated, because there's always another menu getting put up by the ticking script, which seizes control of the UI. So the user is stuck.
To address this kind of problem, Alt-dot really *should* stop all the ticking scripts in the project -- not only as a remedy for pathological situations like the one we've been discussing, for which there's presently no graceful escape, but also, generally, as a quick way to suspend any running simulation, i.e., the equivalent of pressing the red "Stop" button in the "all scripts" tool.
I've opened a TRAC ticket for this:
https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8879
... and I've posted a potential fix there which implements the above suggestion, for comment.
Cheers,
-- Scott