How can I pause/cancel a script?

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#1

I wanted to know how can I cancel/pause a script mid-way.

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#2

Well, it would depend on what you’re doing in the script. Can you elaborate

#3

You can do that by doing

path.to.script.Disabled = true

replace path.to.script with the script path.

#4

Create a yield or loop that will end when desired. If you want to cancel a script, you can use a return. If you want to also disconnect events and break loops, you can disable the script like @nonamehd24 said and then return immediately after (because disabling will not end execution, it will only stop loops and events).

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#5

Ever played any 3d Pokémon games? In battle, your camera starts moving as idle until you interact. After interaction, the camera immediately goes to the initial spot, and stops moving.

I want to replicate exactly that, but I just don’t know how.

#6

Call

script:Destroy()

if you want to cancel a script.
or

script.Disabled = true

on your script.

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#7

There are a few ways, it entirely depends on how you lay the script out tho.
I would use promises, which is more advanced but it would work.

https://eryn.io/roblox-lua-promise/

#8

I’m pretty sure the code in the script still executes

#9

Thank you, I will try that. I’ll mark as solution if it works.

#10

You know, there are things called Breakpoints that you select which line the code should stop on

#11

Sorry for replying 10h after, I was sleeping.

I don’t want to stop on a specific line, I want to stop a block immediately after event being fired.

#12

Would you mind showing us your code with a comment on the line you want to stop on?

#13

This still isn’t enough context. Can you provide an example as to what exactly you want? There are many ways to stop a function, thread, or script mid-way and it depends a lot on the context of what you’re doing at the time and how exactly you want it to stop.

#14

Well I guess you could just destroy the script at the end of the function line

#15

Interrupting wait-while loops can be done like this, to restart the while loop would require putting it into a function and using another event.

local running = true
bindableEvent.Event:Connect(function()
   running = false
end)

while task.wait() do
    if not running then
        break
    end

    -- constantly running code
end

-- after exit clean up code
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#16

Doing this from the script doesn’t actually stop script execution, it just runs in nil. For a behavior like that you’d need to disable the script from another script.

#17

I needed that also. Thank you. :white_check_mark:

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