Killing an infinite loop?

[dannyst]

Last I heard, Maya doesn't have the ability to kill a script that runs into an infinite loop without forcing Maya to quit. Anybody know if there is one or if it is planned for a future upgrade?

I am coding something and have found one rare case where it gets into an infinite loop. However it is extremely hard to track down because every time it happens I have to force Maya to quit and then open it and recreate the circumstances. So it takes about five minutes each time. Just a thought on that one.

[gmask]

There are some methods for breaking loops but it pretty much invovls adding some code to each and every loop that either checks for a file or pressed down key.. otherwise I have not heard of any new features in this area.

You could also just added a statment like this to each loop to put a cap on how many times it will cycle

if($x++ >= 100) break;

for example..

int $y=1;
int $x=1;

while ( $y <= 50 ){

if($x++ >= 10) break;

$y++;
print $y;
}