"Prompt for Input" prompts that are too tall

Questions & Suggestions
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I often use "Prompt for Input" actions as debugging aids. I made the mistake of displaying a long XML string today, and I couldn't find any way to close the prompt. No keystrokes, nothing. I finally had to kill all macros to get it to go away.

Any ideas on how to dismiss a prompt like this?

Also, it would be kind of nice if the prompt limited itself to the size of the screen (@peternlewis).

Thanks.

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An ESC will usually press a standard Cancel button on the Prompt. did you try that?

You can cancel selected Macro if you want from the status menu.
I have two Cancel Macro macros:

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Thanks, and good point - I forgot to mention that the prompt only had an "OK" button. Probably shouldn't do that again. :roll_eyes:

You can cancel selected Macro if you want from the status menu.

Yeah, I have a "red button" hot key that aborts all running macros. I don't use it much, but when I need it, I'm sure glad it's there! Especially if I have a runaway macro that's moving the mouse all over the place - makes it kind of hard to access the status menu. :open_mouth:

Thanks for your help, Jim!

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That happens to me at least once per week. So I mapped my backquote character, which I otherwise rarely use, to a "cancel all macros" action. And I use that every 5 minutes.

When I've accidentally disabled the group it's in, and the mouse isn't working because of my macros, it can sometimes require a hard reboot.

I'm more prone to this sort of problem because I have macros that require triggering on the primary and secondary mouse buttons, so I've remapped those buttons with my mouse driver.

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We do it to ourselves, don't we? I'd comment more, but we're getting off topic.

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