How do I abort a handler in OS X???

[Jim Carwardine]

Yes, I did force quit.  I guess the confusion was that cmd/period does work
if you are not in a repeat loop because I just naturally use it if I need
to... Jim

on 6/26/06 6:00 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> 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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