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What is the best way to exit a running script,

os.exit()

This line crashes octane.

I would like to do some error checking and end the whole thing if one is encountered.

thx

Hi MB,
I'm not a programmer, but an architect, but my solution to error handling is to use an if state with return:
local function showError(text)
octane.gui.showDialog{
type = octane.gui.dialogType.BUTTON_DIALOG,
title = "Error",
text = text }
end

if x == 0 then
showError("Your error message")
return
end
hope it helps,
ciao beppe

Beppe

Thanks for responding. I will try tomorrow when I'm back in the office, but if memory serves me correctly that will not exit the program completely.

best

To be a bit more technical, a Lua script is treated the same as a function body. So you can use return to exit your script. If you're writing a script you want to call from the command-line you may return an integer number, which will then be visible as the exit code of the octane process.

You can also call the error function: error("oops") to raise an error. The effect depends on the context:

• Raising an error in the main script (or in any function called directly from there) will stop the script. When called from the command line, this results in a non-zero exit code.
• Raising an error in a render callback will stop the render.
• GUI callbacks should not raise errors, you'll have to add some handling yourself to close any open dialogs.

os.exit() will exit the application, but I recommend not using this function as it can interfere with the authentication management. For batch processes, use the --stop-after-script or --no-gui option instead to exit octane after the script finishes.

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Roeland