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Re: How can I introduce a 'Interrupt button' into an IDL loop. [message #12928]

Thu, 24 September 1998 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Bill Eaton (wje@netcomuk.co.uk) writes:

> I have a program which performs a many iteration loop thus taking lots
> of time. Sometimes I need to stop the interative procedure. Is there a
> way of introducing a Widget_button on sceen to perform this task.
> Cntrl-Break works but is not very elegant.

You can see an example of a "show progress" indicator that
can be interrupted by clicking the CANCEL button at this
URL:

ftp://ftp.dfanning.com/pub/dfanning/outgoing/misc/showprogre ss.pro

It is designed *exactly* for this purpose.

Cheers,

David

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