Never run a program that is still being edited with BREAK OFF activated, or you will lose your work. Make a back-up copy first. Here are two examples, and if you insist on ignoring this advice, you may be foolhardy enough to try the second one!
E> Break Off
Print "Try and press the Break keys now"
Wait 500
Break On
Print "Break keys activated"
Wait 100
Direct
E> Break Off
Do
Print "Get out of that!"
Wait Key
Loop
SYSTEM
instruction: go to Workbench
System
To close AMOS Professional altogether, and go to the Workbench, the System command can be given from within a program, or from the Editor. The Direct Mode pre-set icon, is explained in Chapter 4.1, or simply press [Shift]+[F10].
D> Print "Au revoir AMOS" System
Separating commands in a line
So far in this Chapter, individual instructions have been separated from one another by
typing them in and pressing the [Return] key to enter them on a new line of the program. In fact,
the AMOS Professional programmer will often want to place groups of related commands together
on the same line of the program. This is achieved by separating your instructions with a
colon character.
AMOS Professional makes typing in instructions as simple as possible, and you will not normally have to worry about typing in correct spacings, as long as you stick to the rules. When a colon is used to split up commands, command words are recognised and given a capital letter and a space automatically.
This can be proved by typing in the next example exactly as it appears below, and hitting the Return] key:
E> Print"I'm so":wait key:print"neat!"