Is there such thing as a univeral abort command

[Jan Schenkel]

--- "Mark E. Powell" <runrev at aboutmyfiles.com> wrote:
> Maybe a very simpleton question:  Is there a
> universal abort command that will stop (in a
> standalone) any running handler?  Or must each
> handler that I want to be abortable have some
> polling?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Mark
> 

Hi Mark,

Apart from "quit", there's really no such built-in
command - so here's my best shot at such a command:

##
on GrindingHalt
  repeat for each line tPendingMessage in the
pendingMessages
    cancel item 1 of tPendingMessage
  end repeat
  get flushEvents(all")
  exit to top
end GrindingHalt
##

This will cancel all pending messages, eat all the
queued events, and finally exit to top, ending
whatever set of commands it was executing.

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

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<http://www.quartam.com>

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