How do I abort a handler in OS X???
J. Landman Gay
jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Mon Jun 26 17:00:29 EDT 2006
Jim Carwardine wrote:
> Hi Folks... I've just upgraded to Rev 2.7.2 in OS X and can't seem to get
> command/period to abort a handler in an infinite repeat loop. It that only
> a Classic function? How do I do it in OS X? I can't look it up in the rev
> docs because my IDE is busy inside my repeat loop which I can't abort. I'd
> like to be able to save the script changes so I don't want to force quit.
>
> How do I abort a handler? Jim
You've probably already force-quit by now, but just for the record, you
can't get out of one of these and force-quitting is about all you can
do. This has hit me many times, and now I am (almost) in the habit of
inserting a line like this into every new repeat loop I write:
if the shiftkey is down then exit repeat
Once I know the thing works okay, I generally take the line out. But it
has saved me multiple times.
For some reason, Command-period can't break into a repeat loop. I think
the engine runs those as fast as it can without checking the keyboard
input. You might want to Bugzilla this, because it happens a lot.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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