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ON STOP phrase

Describes the processing that occurs when the STOP condition occurs during a block. This condition occurs when a user presses STOP, when a STOP statement is executed, or when certain internal conditions occur within the AVM. The STOP key is usually mapped to CTRL+BREAK (Windows) or CTRL+C (UNIX). By default, the STOP condition undoes active transactions, block by block, until it reaches the outermost block or a block that traps the STOP condition. Control then returns to the Procedure Editor or AppBuilder, if the code was run from that tool.

Almost all STOP conditions are trappable with the ON STOP phrase. In two cases, the AVM may ignore ON STOP phrases. First, if the AVM executes a procedure that relies on a lost database connection, the AVM raises the STOP condition and unwinds the call stack until it gets to a level above all references to the lost database. If it encounters an ON STOP before this point it ignores it. If it encounters an ON STOP phrase after this point, then the AVM executes the ON STOP. Similarly, if the AVM encounters an I/O blocking statement inside a user-defined function or a non-void method, the STOP condition is raised, and the AVM unwinds the procedure stack ignoring ON STOP phrases until it gets to a point above the user-defined function or non-void method call.

Syntax

ON STOP UNDO 
  [ label1 ] 
  [     , LEAVE [ label2 ] 
     |  , NEXT [ label2 ] 
     |  , RETRY [ label1 ] 
     |  , RETURN [ return-value | 
                  ERROR [ return-value | error-object-expression ] | 
                  NO-APPLY ]  
  ] 

label1
LEAVE [ label2 ]
NEXT [ label2 ]
RETRY [ label1 ]
RETURN ...

This procedure lets you update the CreditLimit field for each Customer. If you enter a value greater than 100,000, the program raises the STOP condition. Since you specified an UNDO, RETRY for a STOP, the procedure starts the iteration over and allows you to enter another value.

r-ostop.p
FOR EACH Customer ON STOP UNDO, RETRY: 
  DISPLAY Customer.CustNum Customer.Name Customer.CreditLimit. 
  UPDATE Customer.CreditLimit. 
  IF Customer.CreditLimit > 100000 THEN STOP. 
END. 

The ON STOP phrase is especially useful to trap the STOP condition that results when a user cancels out of a record lock conflict in an application. The r-ostop2.p procedure is a simple record navigation and update utility that finds Salesrep records with the SHARE-LOCK condition. The user can update the values of a Salesrep record in the frame and choose the Assign button to assign the new values to the database. If the user attempts to update a Salesrep record that another user already has in the SHARE-LOCK condition, the r-ostop2.p procedure freezes as a result of the record locking conflict. The AVM displays a message asking the user to wait for the other user to relinquish the lock on the record or to press the STOP key to abort the operation.

By default, the STOP key aborts the procedure. The ON STOP phrase on the DO TRANSACTION block in the r-ostop2.p procedure captures the STOP condition and returns control to the procedure.

r-ostop2.p
DEFINE VARIABLE methRtn AS LOGICAL NO-UNDO. 
DEFINE BUTTON buta LABEL "Find Next". 
DEFINE BUTTON butb LABEL "Assign". 
DEFINE BUTTON butc LABEL "Done". 
DEFINE FRAME a 
  Salesrep.SalesRep SKIP Salesrep.RepName SKIP Salesrep.Region SKIP  
  Salesrep.MonthQuota[1] Salesrep.MonthQuota[7] SKIP  
  Salesrep.MonthQuota[2] Salesrep.MonthQuota[8] SKIP 
  Salesrep.MonthQuota[3] Salesrep.MonthQuota[9] SKIP  
  Salesrep.MonthQuota[4] Salesrep.MonthQuota[10] SKIP  
  Salesrep.MonthQuota[5] Salesrep.MonthQuota[11] SKIP  
  Salesrep.MonthQuota[6] Salesrep.MonthQuota[12] SKIP(1) 
  buta butb Butc 
  WITH 1 DOWN NO-BOX SIDE-LABELS. 
/*******TRIGGERS*******/ 
ON CHOOSE OF buta DO: 
  FIND NEXT SalesRep SHARE-LOCK. 
  IF NOT AVAILABLE SalesRep THEN  
    MESSAGE "No Next SalesRep". 
  DISPLAY SalesRep WITH FRAME a. 
END. 
ON CHOOSE OF butb DO: 
  DO TRANSACTION ON STOP UNDO, LEAVE: 
    ASSIGN SalesRep.SalesRep Salesrep.RepName SalesRep.Region. 
  END. 
END. 
ON CHOOSE OF butc DO: 
  APPLY "ENDKEY" TO FRAME a. 
END. 
/*******MAIN BLOCK*******/ 
FIND FIRST SalesRep SHARE-LOCK. 
DISPLAY SalesRep WITH FRAME a. 
ENABLE ALL WITH FRAME a. 
WAIT-FOR ENDKEY OF FRAME a FOCUS buta. 

See also

ON ENDKEY phrase, ON ERROR phrase, ON QUIT phrase, RETURN statement, RETURN-VALUE function, STOP statement


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