Other methods to interrupt a runaway app?

[WaltBrown]

Hi!
Does anyone have any tips on interrupting a runaway app? I occasionally (hmm) have algorithms under development, typically recursive, that become uninterruptible by ctrl-dot or ctrl-c (which only seems to happen when I have forgotten to save a couple hours work of course). What I sometimes do is a debugging kluge:

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global gEmergencyStop    -- Set to 0 on openStack
global gWhoaNelly           -- Set to some appropriate max value like 10 million on openStack

-- Called as the first line in all recursive subroutines and major loops
--    as in - eStop "in wbSuspectFunctionName"
on eStop pTargetMessage
   add 1 to gEmergencyStop
   if (gEmergencyStop > gWhoaNelly) then
        answer "eStop" && pTargetMessage
        exit to top
    end if
end eStop

Does anyone have other tips or techniques in this area to share?

Thanks!
Walt

[shadowslash]

If it runs / uses repeats, don't forget to add wait 0 millisecs with messages before the end repeat line.

[WaltBrown]

Thanks!