Is there a workaround for no finally block

Eggplant Functional
1

Usually when I write automation code I wrap it in a try/catch/finally statement. The finally block of the statement will contain any “clean up code” that might need to run regardless of whether or not a exception was through. For example, I might clear a reference or close a dialog in the finally block since I would want those things to happen regardless.

Since SenseTalk doesn’t support the finally the block for the try/catch statement does anyone have any way to duplicate its functionality. In other words is there some way to guarantee that code in a script will be run regardless of whether or not an exception is thrown?

Thanks.

2

Well, you can put your cleanup in both the catch and at the end of your try block (or immediately after your catch block). If it’s a collection of cleanup stuff then of course you will be better off grouping that into it’s own handler.

try
	if random(2) equals 1 then  throw myproblem
	cleanupStuff
catch myException
	cleanupStuff
	throw myException -- or log 
end catch

to cleanupStuff
	put stuff1
	put stuff2
	put stuff3
end to
3

Thanks that’s exactly what I was looking for.