'keystroke "." using command down' does nothing!

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#1 
if name of theObject is "cancelAction" then
	close panel (window of theObject)
	tell application "System Events"
		tell process "Terminal"
			keystroke "." using command down
		end tell
	end tell
end if

i have this code attached to a buttons ‘on clicked’ handler and when i click it the terminal ignores it i guess, because it doesn’t stop the active process in the terminal…am i doing something wrong?

#2

You may need to make the Terminal active (and allow it time to come to the front) before you issue the keystroke command.

Jon

#3

Your better bet is to GREP for the process that is running and do a shell script to kill the PID.

I noticed that sending to TERMINAL doesn’t always send to the active window. It starts a background process that doesn’t do much for you (in your case).