user interrupts

[Sarah Reichelt]

On 12/15/05, Preston Shea <darkshadow1 at metrocast.net> wrote:
> When the user interrupts a running handler, the image of the card is left on the screen. Is there a way to get rid of it without rebooting? Is there are gentler form of controlled crash?

Does your handler close the card or go to a different card if it
finishes normally? If so, when you interrupt, the card will most
likely still be there or the wrong card will be displayed in the stack
window. You can close the stack window or use the arrow keys or the
View menu to navigate back to the card you want.

While Command-period stops any handler abruptly, you can script a way
to get out of a loop yourself. Here is an example:

on mouseUp
  repeat 1000 times
     put random(1000)
     if the mouse is down then exit repeat
  end repeat
  put "Finished"
end mouseUp

This loops 1000 times if undisturbed, but at any stage, if it detects
that you are holding down the mouse button, it will immediately stop
looping, but it will continue on with the rest of the script.

Cheers,
Sarah