Exit all running scripts

[nightdesigns]

Is there a command to exit all currently running scripts? I know there's exit script, but if i'm 2-3 levels deep in scripts i want an easy way out.

Thanks

-j

[SteveB]

Use Script Step "Halt"

[nightdesigns]

Does that just "halt" the current script or all scripts? And where does it dump me, just from that last step, or do i have to exit my script?

Thanks

-j

[LiveOak]

A "halt" statement halts all scripts and leaves you wherever you are when the statement is encountered. If you want to go to a particular layout/state/found set/etc., you must perform the script steps you need to accomplish this before executing the halt.

-bd

[IdealData]

Exit Script - Exits current script and returns to previous script

Halt Script - Halts ALL scripts at current point

Personally I ALWAYS use "perform sub scripts", but it is possible just to chain sripts together by turning off this feature.

It's not a good practise to "Halt" a script, I don't do it because my scripts rely upon "proper" completion

[SteveB]

I disagree with Mark. Halting all scripts is useful in some circumstances. I validate some of the user's answers in a script maybe 2 levels down. If an answer is wrong, he gets an error message and the script halts on the current layout, so he can fix the error. In this case, exiting a script is the wrong solution since the script above will continue processing.

[The Bridge]

When I don't want the script to continue until input is validated, I enclose the data entry in a loop with an Exit Loop If step.

[nightdesigns]

Thanks for all the replies. I want to use it because my FM checks e-mail at regular intervals. If it can't connect to the server to send the mail, i want it just to stop everything, other i could have the problem of it thinking that it connected and set everything to sent when it's not. I know i could set up a bunch of error scripts, but this is much easier. At at this point, no data has been changed except for a POP/SMTP result.

THanks

[Keith M. Davie]

I found this subject line amusing.

Whether the script event being run is one of sub-scripts or one of scripts-chained-together, ScriptMaker is handling only one script event at a time. It is single-threaded. Put another way, there can be only one running script.

[djgogi]

It is definitely true that you can have only one script running at time, but there might be as many as you want paused scripts. So halt would exit them all.

Dj