[bossanova808]

Ok so there are times I want my addon to bail out (with a notification) - I have previously been in the habit of calling sys.exit() for this, but this is causing crashes on OpenElec.

What is the right way to bail out of an addon??

[Martijn]

add breaks in loops and have a global variable on which you check if you need to bail out

[mikey1234]

i use this

Code:

xbmc.executebuiltin("XBMC.Container.Update(path,replace)")
xbmc.executebuiltin("XBMC.ActivateWindow(Home)")

[bossanova808]

ok cool thanks - O think what I will do is jsut pass my internal exceptions back to the main program and then just flow out if I need to, after notifying the user (i.e. don't call exit(), just run off the end as it were...)

I don't know if per se I want it to drop back to home - what if it was started from the programs menu instead, for example?

[Martijn]

Just make so that you flow through your code and skip everything that it "finishes"

[bossanova808]

What I'd really like to do is use atexit() but apparently that's not possible as the interpreter is left running....it's because I really need to do some cleanup on the way out (I modify keymaps on the fly to get around various UI quirks etc - want to make sure no matter what I restore the system back to original state...)

Anyway, all good for now, thanks!