Feature Request: Pause button During App Build Process

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I’ve submitted a feature request to XOJO. Do you think it’s a good idea? You can follow this request at this link:

https://tracker.xojo.com/xojoinc/xojo/-/issues/78182

(See image) It would be great to have a “Pause” feature during the build process of our apps. This could be useful, for example, if you need to step away from your workstation for various reasons and then resume the build later. The “Cancel” button, in situations with large projects, can take quite a while before it stops the build process. With a “Pause” button, you could pause the build if you have doubts about the app’s structure and then decide whether to cancel the build afterward. In short, pausing the build would be a great feature that would avoid abruptly stopping the export and would allow us to manage the resumption of the compilation based on our time, especially for projects that take a long time.

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This might not be necessary if Xojo’s preemptive threads dramatically speed up the build process. :slight_smile:

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I can count on the thumbs of one foot how many times ‘Cancel’ has managed to cancel a build when I have tried it.

I suspect a Pause button would be similarly unresponsive,
but TBH I’m not sure it would be a big help over a Cancel button anyway.

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Thank you Jeff.

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BTW, if you want, you can show a dialog using script steps where you would simply ask if you want to continue.

Note: As an ex-engineer of Xojo, my take on this is that it would not be practical to stop in the middle of the build. If you were going to walk away, just let it build or cancel It. If it’s bad when you get back, fix it and build again.

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let them make the cancel button work as it should (instantaneously ?) first.
then you can ask for a pause button !

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