Bladed Knowledge Base

Pause Calculations
Category: Usability tricks

Problem

Sometimes when you have a long Bladed calculation running on a laptop it is necessary to move the laptop and disrupt the network conection. If the Bladed calculation involved reading or writing from files accessed through the network, the whole calculaiton might fail before you have a chance to restor the network connection.

Solution

Pause the calculation.

Open the dtbladed or dtsignal comand window

Right click on the window title bar and select Edit->Mark

Select some text in the comand window and the calculation wil pause

You can now safely disrupt the network connection

To resume just press Enter

This relies on the calculaiton command window being available. If the calculation was run from Bladed Batch then it is necessary to configure Bladed Batch to show console windows before starting the calculation.





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