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I have an ahk application that use GUI as a user panel. If the user press one button, one script will run.
Sometimes the script is get stuck because of other aspect than the application itself. I would like to know is there any way to reset the script without exiting the application?

What I meant is really resetting the script (maybe by stopping the current thread?), not breaking from loop or something like that.

I already try to search in this forum, and also in the help file, but I can't find it (or maybe I haven't try hard enough??)...

thank a lot

Is Reload what you're looking for?

I think Reload will reset the whole application, just like do close and re-open it... am I right?.. If I do that, it will reset the memory inside my application.

What I am looking for is the function to reset only the script that is running.

perhaps store the variables you need somewhere and then use reload and then retrieve those values?

ok... let's make this a little bit more clear... it's more than just a variable..

for example my application has an embedded Windows Media Player, and right now it's playing a song... and I press a button to search song in my computer, so another thread will be created to do it... and sometimes it get stuck...

If I use reload... it will stop everything, including my song... and I dont want that to happen.. and i dont want to hear it from the beginning as well...

you've got what i mean?

Well if the script is persistent then



Will exit the current thred, but it needs to be called by the thread itself.

If its getting stuck in a loop, then you can set an option to break if a certain condition is true. ie

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it would be very helpful if you could post some example code, but it sounds like all you need to do is have a break within a loop and then have a return after the loop in order to go back to exactly where it was

yeh basically what fraggle said

maybe the exit is what i'm looking for, but is that any way to call it from another thread, let say by pressing a button, to close another thread?

the problem in my application is not in ahk script itself, but it calls another application, and that application is the one who get stuck. but because of my ahk application waiting for the result, it seems like it stop there.
for example it get stuck here

and if something like this happen, I would like to reset it simply just pressing one button...
but pls dont tell me to put an error trap there, because that's not what i mean...

i didn not realise that such a thing was possible or necessary. could you show me where there is run() in the documentation?

Well why didn't you say so earlier?

If it's an external app you want to kill, this is what you do. When you run it:

Then to kill it:

run() in that "example" is my own function to call external application...
and i believe that the one that get stuck is the "otherapplication.exe"... since that application is not mine, so i can't do anything with it...
what i want to do is just to be able to reset my script...


i can't do this.. this is only one example...

pls guys... i just want to be able to reset... not to solve the problem with any other ways...

What do you mean you can't do it? Why give us examples that dont' have anything to do with the real problem?

I mean... that's not the only external application that i used...
in my other subprogram, i run another application...
and like i said earlier... i also have embedded program (like the windows media player) in my application...

the problem is... from all of those "external" things... i dont know in which application it get stuck... and to kill the specific one means that i have to know exactly in which part my ahk application get stuck... am i right??
and i dont have that luxury to have an error trap for each of them...

that's why, i would like to be able just simply reset it...

Well what if you laucnhed a seperate autohotkey script to do the part that gets stuck then?

its like trying to squeeze blood from a stone this
i dont really understand anything of what you are saying.....
why cant you find out where it gets stuck?
why dont you have the luxury of having error messages. just put a tooltip after each command in your script with the values expected and see what happens. i dont believe theres a program that cant output variables



and i didnt know that as you didnt post the function