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Force quit a script gone rogue?


Elyonne
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Basically, my script was paused with a message waiting for response. I was looking at my code and forgot and pressed F1  and immediately my script resumed and couldn't be stopped. My hot key to pause it wasn't working, CTRL + Break wasn't working, ALT + F4 worked on everything BUT the actual macros... I couldn't try anything else because my script is very click intensive with little rest by design. I managed to click on the message and still couldn't stop the thing. I had to reboot.

Why does this happen and can I stop my script if it goes cray cray?

This is my hot key code:

HotKeySet("{ESC}", "_HoldUp")


Func _HoldUp()
    $ans = MsgBox(0, "What Next?", "Pause script??", 3)
    If $ans = 1 Then $ans = MsgBox(2, "Paused", "Stop executing | Skip to next | Continue")
    Select
        Case $ans = 3
            Exit
        Case $ans = 4
            $f_dis = 1
        Case $ans = 5
            Sleep(1500)
    EndSelect

EndFunc   ;==>_HoldUp

 

new to AutoIt and online forums, so I apologize in advance for being annoying.

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Blocking functions will hold the execution of another function (hotkey)

Example would be a msgbox() you can terminate the script but it wont actually exit until you click on the messagebox so that the script proceeds to the next command. 

If you want a true bail out option for script testing purposes probably make a .bat file with taskkill or powershell with get-process | close-process that will close any open autoit processes.  Or another Autoit Script that does this.

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Open up TaskManager and kill the AutoIt.exe process(es)

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