Repeat until (mouseDoulbeUp?)

[Jan Schenkel]

Hi James,

The trick is to use 'wait with messages' in your 'repeat' loop. This allows the processing of events, including 'mouseDoubleUp' - which in turn allows you to set some sort of flag, which the loop can check afterwards to know if it needs to exit. Bear in mind that the 'wait with messages' does nothing to limit the user interface, and you will now be able to click on other buttons, so use with care and disable controls that might interfere.

Here's a recipe to illustrate:
- create a new stack, and drop a  button and a scrolling field onto it
- set the button script to:

##
local sStatus

on mouseUp
   if sStatus is not "running" then
      put "running" into sStatus
      DisableOtherControls
      repeat with i = 1 to 500
         put return & i after field 1
         wait500millisecondswithmessages
         if sStatus is not "running" then exit repeat
      end repeat
      EnableOtherControls
   else
      pass mouseUp
   end if
end mouseUp

on mouseDoubleUp
   if sStatus is "running" then
      put "stopped" into sStatus
   end if
end mouseDoubleUp

command DisableOtherControls
   disablefield1
end DisableOtherControls

command EnableOtherControls
   enablefield1
end EnableOtherControls
##

If you're interested, you can always read the blogpost that I wrote about this last year:
<http://quartam.blogspot.com/2010/03/but-waiting-makes-me-curious.html>

HTH,

Jan Schenkel.
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www.quartam.com


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"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)


________________________________
 From: James Hurley <jhurley0305 at sbcglobal.net>
To: use-livecode at lists.runrev.com 
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 12:56 AM
Subject: Repeat until (mouseDoulbeUp?)
 
is it possible to terminate (exit) a repeat loop with a mouseDoubleUp?

Thanks, 

Jim Hurley

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