Stopping a 'Running' script ...

[simonwar]

Apologies for this seemingly easy question....

.....but I just got into hell of a mess with a Do....While loop, nearly lost lots of work basically because i couldn't stop the script.

Hit every key on the board, Esc, Ctrl-Esc, Ctrl-Alt-Del, Alt-F4, you name it..... but nothing.... the scipt, tireless to the end, continued.

[poisonkiller]

You can pause/stop your script from tray and you should add Sleep function to Do...While loops to avoid overdrive.

Edited July 22, 2007 by poisonkiller

[simonwar]

pause/stop your script from tray

Can you elaborate... what is tray, couldn't do anything with anything apart from shutdown.

Sleep function to Do...While loops to avoid overdrive.

Again, forgive my lack of experience, not sure how to do this ?

Thanks, Simon.

P.S. I am using While 1 --------- WEnd as the loop code

[loki1982]

Can you elaborate... what is tray, couldn't do anything with anything apart from shutdown.

Again, forgive my lack of experience, not sure how to do this ?

Thanks, Simon.

P.S. I am using While 1 --------- WEnd as the loop code

Down in the bottom right portion of your screen there is a "System Tray" area that has your clock, and depending on whats running, other icons related to whats running. When an autoit script runs there is an icon down in the tray area you you can right click and either pause the script, or close it.

And for sleep you use sleep(<delay>) where <delay> is how many milliseconds you want the script to sleep. 1000 = 1 second.

[mikehunt114]

If you're executing a never-ending loop, it's always a good idea to have a backdoor exit. I prefer to set a hotkey at the top of my script, and call and an exiting function.

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

;main portion of script here

Func Terminate()
    Exit 0
EndFunc