Phill the answers you got do not relate to your question If i understand your question.
Which I think is about repeat loops Best way to do this is not to use a repeat loop as nothing will update while its running (I think) put loop stuff in enter/exitframe handler and use some form of counter to drive it Should be stuff in the archives (search; repeat) HTH Dave ------------------------------------------------------ David Burgoyne E Proctor & Stevenson Ltd. Phone: +44 (0)117 944 4466 Fax: +44 (0)117 942 4932 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.eproctors.co.uk The contents of this e-mail / post are confidential to the addressee and are intended solely for the recipients use. If you are not the addressee, you have received this e-mail /post in error. Any disclosure, copying, distribution or action taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please note that any opinions expressed in this e-mail / post are those of the author personally and are not necessarily those of E Proctor & Stevenson Ltd or its subsidiary companies, none of whom accept responsibility for the contents of the message. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Gross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 2:42 PM Subject: Re: <lingo-l> Basic ? > Does anyone know if this is true? If I have a tight repeat loop, and want to give the system a chance to take care of business without leaving the loop, can I just insert periodic updateStage commands? Are there other, maybe better, commands that will do that? > > -Phil > > Cole Tierney wrote: > > > > > > > I could be wrong, but I seem to recall that inserting an updatestage > > in a repeat loop would allow the loop to be aborted via <command> "." > > or escape. > > > > -- > > Cole > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > > _____________________________________________________________________ > This outbound message has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan AV service. For more information on a higher level of virus protection please visit http://www.mcdonagh.com/networks/messagelabs.asp. ..................................................................... This email has been scanned for all known viruses by BT MessageScan, powered by MessageLabs Find out more at http://www.btignite.com/uk/products/messagescan/ [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
