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Chris,

Quick question that would be useful to know today sometime if you have a chance:

Is there an isRunning action or expression in the XML that tells you whether the state system is stopped or started?
Also, is there a way to specify actions that are guaranteed to get run after the state system (or trial) is finished, whether interrupted or not, like the try/finally structure in python?

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Hi Mark,

Is there an isRunning action or expression in the XML that tells you whether the state system is stopped or started?

No. The #state_system_mode variable holds that information, but you can’t access it from the XML (although a Python bridge script can see it).

How did you hope to use such an action/expression?

Also, is there a way to specify actions that are guaranteed to get run after the state system (or trial) is finished, whether interrupted or not, like the try/finally structure in python?

No, but you’ve asked for this before, and it’s on the to-do list.

Chris

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Also, is there a way to specify actions that are guaranteed to get run after the state system (or trial) is finished, whether interrupted or not, like the try/finally structure in python?

No, but you’ve asked for this before, and it’s on the to-do list

Ah, my memory is not good. Thanks.

My use case: I’m scheduling a set of actions to happen in the future. If the state system is stopped before the schedule, I’d like to cancel the scheduled actions. I could use an “if isRunning” or similar inside the scheduled payload, or I could cancel them from a “finally” block.

Thanks, I’ll work around this.

Mark