interrupting a repeat loop

[Jacques Hausser]

Tim, I forgot two little things:

local stoploop

command runTheLoop
  put empty into stoploop -- as stoploop is a "permanent" variable, it should already contain "S" and the loop will not run
  repeat forever
     if stoploop = "S" then exit repeat
     -- do what you want
     wait 10 milliseconds with messages
  end repeat
end runTheLoop

on keyDown thekey
   put thekey into stoploop
   pass keydown -- depends of what else is in your card script, without this line something else could be blocked...
end keydown

Sorry, I was answering too quickly !

Jacques

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