Re: Is there a way to stop execution>?

2014-01-19 Thread stephen barncard
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Peter Bogdanoff wrote: > Command/period does stop a "repeat forever" loop in the script sometimes, if there's enough computation going on inside the loop, but sometimes the loop is too small and it won't work. *--* *Stephen Barncard - San Francisco Ca. USA - De

Re: Is there a way to stop execution>?

2014-01-19 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
Command/period does stop a "repeat forever" loop in the script, as well as other processes; but not a dialog. Peter UCLA On Jan 19, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Paul Hibbert wrote: > In the IDE sometimes cmd-y will stop a script, always worth a try before a > force quit. > > Paul > > On 2014-01-19, at

Re: Is there a way to stop execution>?

2014-01-19 Thread Paul Hibbert
In the IDE sometimes cmd-y will stop a script, always worth a try before a force quit. Paul On 2014-01-19, at 3:15 PM, Earthednet-wp wrote: > Thanks, Stephen. I did notice that some of the toolbar menus worked, tho, so > I could save the file anyway before I nuked it. > Bill > > William Prot

Re: Is there a way to stop execution>?

2014-01-19 Thread Earthednet-wp
Thanks, Stephen. I did notice that some of the toolbar menus worked, tho, so I could save the file anyway before I nuked it. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Jan 19, 2014, at 2:20 PM, stephen barncard > wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 12:50 PM, proth...@earthednet.org <

Re: Is there a way to stop execution>?

2014-01-19 Thread stephen barncard
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 12:50 PM, proth...@earthednet.org < proth...@earthednet.org> wrote: > Is there some way, or is force quitting the only way to get out of the > loop? > Bill > probably not. One still has to use the 'nuclear option' If theres' a chance that could happen, then put something

Is there a way to stop execution>?

2014-01-19 Thread proth...@earthednet.org
Folks: I got myself into an infinite loop with an answer dialog coming up and couldn't stop the program except to do a "Force Quit". LC Vers 6.5.1 and OX10.8.5 Is there some way, or is force quitting the only way to get out of the loop? Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org _