Stop a repeat script

[Thomas McCarthy]

A good idea I picked up from somewhere is to build in a time limit on repeats whenever possible:

--before entering repeat loop
put the ticks + 600 into endtime --(10 second timelimit)
repeat with i = 1 to somenumber
if the ticks > endtime then
answer "overtime" --might want to report other information to help debug
exit repeat
end if

do repeat stuff here
end repeat

it's only a couple of lines of code, but it's saved me many a crash.
cheers
tom

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