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. ===== Quartam Reports & PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com ===== "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." (La Rochefoucauld) ________________________________ From: James Hurley <jhurley0...@sbcglobal.net> To: use-livecode@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 _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
