How do I interrupt a function?

I'm trying to create an AI for this project. Essentially I have a condition set: if A is true, we will randomly select a few different actions. If B is true, all actions in the prior condition should stop immediately with preference for B. Any actions in A's side will continue to run until finished however and I need an efficient way to end that.

While we're on the subject, is there maybe something I'm missing about programming games like this? I'm winging it here, but I wonder if there's some fundamental concepts I don't have.

In this example, every... frame, I guess... This condition on the bottom is tested. In all other cases, switchVar 1 or 2 will end up being called. If the bottom condition, kneeHealth <= 0 becomes true however, this does not result in the above actions being canceled. They occur concurrently. How do I stop that from happening?

You don't want to use Wait in a function. As you saw, there's no way to cancel it. It looks like you could put a Timer on bossTracker and use that instead. You can stop the timer whenever you need to switch functionality.

Can you elaborate more on what you mean? I'd like to stop any specific action but I don't see any way to do so.

Look at the Timer behaviour.

Look at the Timer behaviour.

Okay, I took a look at it in the doc and I guess it works differently than I would have assumed. I get what you were suggesting now I think. I'm assuming you mean for me to replace wait with timer actions instead and use that to space out AI actions.

Yes, that's it.

Yes, that's it.

After playing around a bit, it seems like the best way to do this would be to create a series of conditions in the function that evaluate the current time of a timer with a tag and then only execute a certain action at a certain time. That way I could stop the timer and actions would stop executing. Is that how you meant for me to do it?

http://www.blackhornettechnologies.com/Construct3Stuff/Samples/Timer_HamSandWitch.zip

http://www.blackhornettechnologies.com/Construct3Stuff/Samples/Timer_HamSandWitch.zip

You beauty.

Thank you, this makes a lot more sense than how I was doing it and is much simpler. I didn't know about "on timer" so it didn't occur to me to try using it this way. Stop timers should also come in handy at some point. This should get me a lot farther with my project!