#8879: alt-dot should pause ticking scripts
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Reporter: ScottWallace | Owner: etoys
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Not Triaged
Component: etoys-activity | Version: not specified
Keywords: | Next_action: never set
Verified: 0 | Blockedby:
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Sometimes a ticking script cannot be stopped. One such case is a script
that puts up a menu (e.g. by using the do-menu-item tile.)
Alt-dot (if enabled) may put up a debug notifier, but if the ticking
script keeps grabbing the UI back via putting up a menu, or by being so
compute-bound that the UI never gets a chance to kick in long enough to do
anything, there's no way to operate any control that can stop the runaway
script. In such circumstances there is usually no recourse other than an
emergency exit from Etoys.
The solution proposed here is to have Alt-dot always pause all ticking
scripts in the project (in addition to whatever else it does.)
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8879>
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