I think we're getting a bit confused by the code that Pekka posted.
What I think the question is is "how to quit the projector when it has
locked up". The near-endless repeat loop was just an example of the state
Director would be in when the quit would be required.
In answer to that, as far as I know you can't. If Director has got itself
into such a state that it is caught in a massive loop or otherwise locked up
then you'll just have to forcibly kill the projector through the OS - no
clean exit Lingo will be executed if the system is locked up.
Alternatively, if you do use massive repeat loops that have got incorrect
logic so they get trapped, you could always try passing control to te system
at the end of every iteration just so Director can do other things besides
looping through the Lingo - clean exit code WOULD be triggered in this case
as it will have a time slice to deal with it.
With this in mind, does Lingo have an equivalent to Visual Basic's
"DoEvents" command? DoEvents does exactly what I described above - passes a
little bit of control to the system so any events being queued up can run.
If there is, code could look something like this...
repeat with i = 1 to the maxInteger
if i > 100 then
quit
doSomeStuff
DoEvents -- the command that passes a time slice to other events
end repeat
LePhuronn
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