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From: twakeman@hpcea.CE.HP.COM (Teriann Wakeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Need Help with a HyperCard function
Message-ID: <430017@hpcea.CE.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Feb 88 19:19:44 GMT
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Organization: HP Corporate Engineering - Palo Alto, CA
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command-period will stop any script dead in its tracks. Assuming that
you are using a lockscreen true during your calculations, you can add
a press command-period to abort calculations message to your locked screen.
If you need a special message to occur after a calc abort, you can put it
into a hidden field. Have your calc script create a flag (such as putting
a 1 into a hidden field but NOT into a local variable) when starting its
calculations and reset it to 0 when finishing its calculations. You then
can add a script that would show the calc abort message on the next
event, ie mouse down, mouse within, idle or whatever AND a flag. Just
make sure that the scrip passes the event that will, with the flag, show
your abort message.

Hope this helps,

TeriAnn Wakeman