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I do this all the time. Somehow I never seem to get my gadgets running perfectly the first time. Not sure why this is. But I never have a problem with cmd-period. What happens to you? Craig -----Original Message----- From: Mark Schonewille <m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Sent: Sat, Mar 29, 2014 11:45 am Subject: Re: Kill a handler Hi, Really, I don't remember when I used control-period successfully for the last time. Whenever I need to to stop an indefinitely running loop, I have to kill the entire IDE. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Installer Maker for LiveCode: http://qery.us/468 Buy my new book "Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner" http://qery.us/3fi LiveCode on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/runrev/ On 3/29/2014 16:36, dunb...@aol.com wrote: > To break into your loop so that an external control can, er, take control, add this line as appropriate inside your loop(s): > > > wait 0 with messages > > > This will let the handler look outside itself for a brief instant, so that a mouseUp message can be generated by that "cancel" button. > > > You do know that cmd-period will abort any running hsndler, right? > > > Craig Newman > > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
