Ending a macro within a called subroutine

Richard Pullman picture Richard Pullman · Sep 13, 2013 · Viewed 39.6k times · Source

I have a macro (CMOV) which calls another subroutine (CMOV2) that checks for a condition which, if met, displays a vbokaycancel message box which i set equal to a variable called irep,

I want it if someone hits cancel (irep=2) for it to call off the whole macro. That is not only exit CMOV2 but also exit CMOV.

Currently, I have

If jackal(1) <> vbNullString Then
    irep = MsgBox("Warning: You have a selection with two swingarms" _
          & " that are on the same radius and cannot swing past one another " _
          & Chr$(13) & " Choose Okay if you still wish to proceed otherwise " _
          & " choose Cancel to revise your order" & Chr$(13) & "         " _
          & jackal(1) & Chr$(13) & "      " & jackal(2), vbOKCancel)
    **If irep = 2 Then
    Exit Sub**
    Else: End If
    Else: End If
End Sub

at the end of the subroutine. The issue is that even though this exits the CMOV2, CMOV continues to run. Is there a way to end this sub, and the one which called it?

Answer

Cor_Blimey picture Cor_Blimey · Sep 13, 2013
End

Note that End completely stops code execution (within the current call stack so it doesn't effect other projects like Addins etc (a good thing)) but it will close any open file handles (a good thing). On the other hand, , static and module level variables (if you use them) will lose their values and Class terminate methods won't be run so if you have more of an 'app' than a macro this may not be desired.

It sounds like for your purposes this is ok and is probably the simplest way to go about it.

A silly example:

Sub foo()
    Dim i As Long
    For i = 0 To 10
        If i = 2 Then
            Debug.Print "hooray"
            End
        Else
            Debug.Print "hip"
        End If
    Next i
End Sub