Exit modal onClick

[xiwei]

Is there a way to exit modal operator after clicking the operator button again?
I initially thought about looking throught the list of handlers and remove the modal operator if it’s already on the list. But i looks like we don’t have access to it with the python api:

Is there any way to detect an active modal operation?

I did some scanning using the gc module to see if python actually stores a handler. These are the results I got in between running a modal. <bpy_struct, Event at 0x000001B486118E48> <bpy_struct, Event at 0x000001B4F7EDD908> <bpy_struct, OBJECT_OT_modal_operator("OBJECT_OT_modal_operator")> <function scan_gc at 0x000001B486A071E0> Which leads me to believe that the handler isn’t actually exposed as a python object. Even worse, modal operators written in C don’t show up at all. So, this looks li…

[xiwei]

I solved it using global PropertyGroup. Don’t know if it’s a bit too hacky, still if anyone has another solution feel free to let me know