Re: Cancelling a script??
Mike, that did the trick. I'll get into the same coding habit. Thanks! Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan On 2017.02.11, 0:09, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote: If the loop is tight enough, the keypress never gets through. I've just got into the habit of putting an escape hatch into loops that can go wrong. Something like: if the environment is "development" and the shiftkey is down then exit to top (or if you want the user to have access to the same exit, don't check for the environment) Then all you have to do is hold shift and the loop will exit. On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 8:00 AM, Tim Selander via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: The documentation says Cmd + . should stop a running script. I haveset the allowinterrupts to true in my openstack script. But if I get into a long repeat loop, cmd + . does not stop anything. Community v8.1, OSX 10.9. Any advice appreciated. Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Cancelling a script??
If the loop is tight enough, the keypress never gets through. I've just got into the habit of putting an escape hatch into loops that can go wrong. Something like: if the environment is "development" and the shiftkey is down then exit to top (or if you want the user to have access to the same exit, don't check for the environment) Then all you have to do is hold shift and the loop will exit. On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 8:00 AM, Tim Selander via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > The documentation says Cmd + . should stop a running script. > > I haveset the allowinterrupts to true in my openstack script. But if > I get into a long repeat loop, cmd + . does not stop anything. > > Community v8.1, OSX 10.9. > > Any advice appreciated. > > Tim Selander > Tokyo, Japan > > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Cancelling a script??
The documentation says Cmd + . should stop a running script. I haveset the allowinterrupts to true in my openstack script. But if I get into a long repeat loop, cmd + . does not stop anything. Community v8.1, OSX 10.9. Any advice appreciated. Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
