Escape infinite loops

[Jim Ault]

Thanks, Ben, 

I forgot about the 2.7 "allowInterrupts = false"  bug since I am not using
it yet.
In this case, *I* needed the reminder...

Jim Ault
Las Vegas

On 7/3/06 1:55 AM, "Ben Rubinstein" <benr_mc at cogapp.com> wrote:
> Jim's right to point to that thread - and the various strategies he mentions
> are all good - but actually towards the end of the thread it was established
> that the leading issue was that in 2.7.x, the global property
> "allowInterrupts" has been set false by default - it should be 'true'.  With
> this property set to true, command-dot works as you expect (except in certain
> cases with modal dialogs open, which led to the rest of the discussion above).
> 
> As to giving a handler a maximumm time to finish, AFAIK there is no way to do
> this from 'outside' the handler - ie as Jim hints, you'd need to build this
> into your handler in some way.
>