Exiting a repeat loop

[kee nethery]

This might not work for you but, I put:

if the optionkey is down then
    exit repeat
end if

So not trying to capture a specific event, just looking to see if a key is pressed down. What happens is that I put one of these within every repeat loop and when it hits one, it quickly dumps out of the repeat loop. 

Kee

> On Oct 4, 2018, at 1:14 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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> I have little game where the user runs a repeat loop. And I want to let
> the user stop at any time. So what I  do set a local flag. 
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> Here is the simple logic
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> local sStopFlag
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> *on mouseup*
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> *    repeat* sCycles times
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> *        if* sStopFlag=1*then*
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> *            exit* *repeat*
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> **            put "0" into sStopFlag # reinitialize in case they want to
> continue**
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> *        end* *if*
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> *  **            #SNIP  -- Cool stuff happens on screen*
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> *end mouseup*
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> *#and another button that sets the flag*
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> *# button "pause"
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> *on mouseup*
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> *  put 1 into sStopFlag*
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> *end mouseup*
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> *# but on mobile, the user can't exit repeat until she clicks the
> "pause" multiple time.*
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> *What the secret on exit a running repeat loop?*
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> *Do add a little idle time?
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