cancel a wait

[Devin Asay]

Chris,

The waitDepth property might also help you. It will return the number  
of currently running handlers paused at a 'wait with messages'  
statement.


On Jan 16, 2008, at 9:32 PM, Kay C Lan wrote:

> On Jan 17, 2008 1:27 AM, Chris Sheffield <cmsheffield at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> Is there any way to cancel a wait command?
>>
>> So I'm wondering, if a user moves to that second card before the  
>> audio
>> of the first card finishes, is there some way to cancel that
>> wait...with messages? Does that make sense? Let me know if I need to
>> clarify.
>>
>
> I just created a quick test stack, two buttons, one with a script  
> to beep,
> wait 5 seconds with messages then beep again. The other button with  
> a script
> "exit to top". Clicking the second button prevented the second beep  
> from
> occurring.
>
> The docs says to use exit to top 'to stop executing the current  
> handler and
> suppress pending messages'
>
> Suppress pending messages being what you're looking for I think.
>
> My guess is a well placed 'exit to top' at the very end of a closeCard
> handler in your first card might do the trick.

I've also used this technique successfully.

Devin

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University