Best way to stop an event sequence

[Sannyasin Sivakatirswami]

I have some CD's that use the "bad" technique "repeat until the mouse 
is down" to "stop" a show (variety of sequenced events) and allow the 
user to proceed to the next card... a "skip intro" strategy.  I really 
didn't know what I was doing and just "made it work" (nearly three 
years ago now...) But sometimes I get really weird behavior from 
that....

Anyway, would like to start fresh:

Assume on the title card of an interactive presentation, the open stack 
handler triggers a "runsShow' handler that initiates a variety of 
events/sequences, Title Text moves in, images start appearing, fading, 
start a music player, credits are rolling in a field, very wide images 
in the back are moving slowly left to right etc. some of these are done 
with repeat loops and some with "send in"  and there are some "wait" 
built in and you want the user to be able to just stop all that.. and 
go to the next card which is static. What is the best technique for 
this kind of thing? I think the repeat loops are the biggest problem 
with my old way of doing it.

Hope that is not too vague.. a general example of "the best way" would 
suffice.
Thanks!

Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
Himalayan Academy Publications
at Kauai's Hindu Monastery
katir at hindu.org

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