[Editor] How to cancel Build process?

Unity Engine
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Hi,

Sometimes you’ll hit CMD + B or build, and then go… oh shit! and realise you forgot something and have to endure the next 4 minutes of build (this is a large project) so any escape keyboard shortcuts to cancel it?

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alt+f4 on windows xd :slight_smile:
I think that it cant be stoped i never seen a cancel button.

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nope, can’t be stopped. You have to wait for it to finish or kill unity itself. Thats cause its fired off into a chain deeper down than the unity editor UI which at that point will be “locked” basically

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You can create a three line PowerShell script or a ten line Windows Shell script to kill the build process directly. Very easy to do. Set it as an icon on your desktop and then assign a hotkey directly to the icon = instant build process kill switch.

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lol … lots of work if ctrl-shift-escape → u (till unity) or m (till mono) → del → return does it too :wink:

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That is essentially what the PowerShell script does, get the list of processes, find the Mono ones, make sure the process was spawned by Unity, and then kills it.

7

Seems to me it ought be baseline unity feature.

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well you could just change the shortcut for it…^^

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Yes, which is why I keep circling back to my “immature environment” statement in most threads about Unity’s feature set.

10

Glad this was brought up - I’ve had that “oh shit!” moment many times and always hated that there’s no cancel button :slight_smile:

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I usually turn off the sound in Unity when building levels and for some reason I almost always forget to turn it back on before I build, but the second I hit that build button I remember it… annoying :stuck_out_tongue:

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Write a script to do it for you. :slight_smile:

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Create a short-cut icon with CTRL+ALT+K on your desktop to kill all mono processes:

$wshshell = new-object -comobject wscript.shell
$lnk = $wshshell.createshortcut("$home\Desktop\Kill Bill(d).lnk")
$lnk.IconLocation = "${env:PROGRAMFILES(X86)}\Unity\Editor\Unity.exe"
$lnk.Hotkey = "CTRL+ALT+K"
$lnk.TargetPath = "powershell"
$lnk.Arguments = "-command ""stop-process -name mono"""
$lnk.WindowStyle = 7
$lnk.Save()
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P.S. Forgot mention that is PowerShell code. :slight_smile:

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try to cancel a build with pvr texture compresion and you’re dead. Never managed to stop this even with the Ctrl+alt+sup.

Launch unity again and the building starts again… pfff