Stopping a button's action

[David Vaughan]

On Friday, Feb 28, 2003, at 20:22 Australia/Sydney, Scott Raney 
<raney at metacard.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
>
>> Anyone have an efficient way of implementing a Cancel button from 
>> within a
>> loop?
>
> You can use "wait for messages" to do this:
snip

Scott, sorry, I don't get this. From the TD it looks as though a "wait 
for messages" in (or outside) the loop will halt that handler, whereas 
putting it in the Cancel button handler seems...pointless. What is it 
you actually have in mind please, or does the doco mis-describe the 
operation?

In any case, should not this be handled by "send in time" as the 
effective looping device, to allow other messages to intrude on the 
queue? Of course, that does not work as expected either, as I (and Dar 
as I recall) wrote in some correspondence a couple of months ago.

thanks
David

>   Regards,
>     Scott
>
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