terminate script from keyboard

[Raymond Griffith]

On Friday, May 21, 2004, at 02:05  AM, xbury.cs at clearstream.com wrote:

> Dear uncle Bob, ;)
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> If you find a Command key with an apple or a trefle key on a PC, call 
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>  hat keyboard is worth a fortune!!!
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> In the RevDoc it says...
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> Normally, you can stop a handler while it's executing by pressing
> Command-period (on Mac OS or OS X systems) or Control-period (on Unix 
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> Windows systems). This capability can be useful when debugging.
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> Try to make anything stop on windows with a period...
> It's supposed to be "C"... I've NEVER been able to 
> cancel/abort/interupt
> anything on windows with a period. So why the fuss?
> Well, I dont know but either it should work or state that the user can
> also use 'C' to cancel scripts and we wouldn't have users 
> complaining...
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> The big question is:
> Am i the only one who can't make control-period work?

Nope. I usually can't make it work, especially when I have a repeat 
loop. It is determined to go through the process. It does work 
*sometimes*. I hate to put in code to catch and stop them, though, 
since anything extra slows the process down.

Raymond


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> Chipp Walters <chipp at chipp.com>
> Sent by: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
> 20.05.2004 21:54
> Please respond to chipp
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>         To:     How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
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>         Subject:        Re: terminate script from keyboard
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> Xavier,
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> I've been thinking about your problem. Turns out he was holding his cmd
> key on his Mac and pressing the . key on his PC. I told him to try 
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> the ctrl key on his PC and voila-- Bob's your uncle.
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>> Bug 1, 2 and 3
>> I've told Scott years ago that cmd-period doesn't work on PCs...
>> My real question is why am i not being taken seriously? And
>> above all, why is there a mention of this combo if it doesn't work?
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