That’s a very interesting idea, but I’d really like to run some cleanup code in the same coroutine when the slideshow is aborted.
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Subject: Re: Simple Slideshow -
user skip
>
- Can I "inject" a return into the script via C? (dostring or
something
> similar)
> - Or, do I have to abort my wait and then
check a value like this:
> Wait(seconds)
> if (GetAbortFlag() == 1) then
> do return end
> ShowFrame()
> ...
> That's a lot of code for the slideshow
authors to have to include for each
> frame of the show and seems a little messy.
(BTW: the slideshow is in a
> coroutine that yields upon calling Wait() so
the game can continue looping.)
Can't you
just never resume the coroutine? There is no law saying that you have
to resume it
-- just delete all references to it, and it will get garbage collected.