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Topic created on: May 1, 2007 16:01 CDT by stahl .

hello everyone,


as my ida python script evolves, i got to a point were the script gets caught inside an endless loop.

how can i stop excecution of that looping script without forced closing of ida pro? when i try to stop that script using ctrl+d and c nothing happens (well somehow ida pro always hangs up)

thanks for your help!

greetings
stahl

  dennis     May 1, 2007 16:21.34 CDT
IDA Pro is a single threaded application and I'm often having the same problems. IDA hangs with some of my admittedly sloppy written plugins as well. This is usually the case if you don't install an event handler (which is capable of intercepting ctrl-c keypress events) properly.
I don't know if installing event handlers with IDA python is possible or if the code is wrapped at all.
You may want to have a look at kernwin.hpp of the IDA sdk (hint: "ui_wasbreak").

  stahl   May 3, 2007 04:28.17 CDT
it seems that
hook_to_notification_point()
is not implemented in idapython!

is there any way of receiving notifivations in idapython?

  stahl   May 14, 2007 05:39.58 CDT
@Dyce: do you know a way of stopping a stuck-in-a-loop self-written idapython script, so that ida pro doesn't crash?

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