Stopping a loop with a button

[houseonfire]

While 1
    $Msg = GUIGetMsg()
    Switch $Msg
Case $otherfunction
..
Case $start
While 1
        $msg = GUIGetMsg()
        Select
            Case $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
                ExitLoop
            Case $msg = $Start
                While ($msg <> $Stop)
                    $msg = GUIGetMsg()
                    ConsoleWrite("Going" & @LF)
                    Sleep(10)
                Wend
                ConsoleWrite("STOPPED" & @LF)
            EndSelect
        WEnd
    EndSwitch
WEnd

When I use this method of stopping a loop using a button, the loop stops but the other buttons on the GUI stop functioning.

Can someone help me out?

Edited December 7, 2008 by houseonfire

[Achilles]

While 1
    $Msg = GUIGetMsg()
    Switch $Msg
Case $otherfunction
..
Case $start
While 1
        $msg = GUIGetMsg()
        Select
            Case $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
                ExitLoop
            Case $msg = $Start
                While ($msg <> $Stop)
                    $msg = GUIGetMsg()
                    ConsoleWrite("Going" & @LF)
                    Sleep(10)
                Wend
                ConsoleWrite("STOPPED" & @LF)
            EndSelect
        WEnd
    EndSwitch
WEnd

When I use this method of stopping a loop using a button, the loop stops but the other buttons on the GUI stop functioning.

Can someone help me out?

Instead of the sub loop thing you're using, try using

GUICtrlSetState($Start, $GUI_DISABLE)

... You'll need a

#Include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>

for that to work Edited December 7, 2008 by Ichigo

[houseonfire]

I'm sorry but I don't see how that is going to help me stop the loop from running.

[martin]

While 1
    $Msg = GUIGetMsg()
    Switch $Msg
Case $otherfunction
..
Case $start
While 1
        $msg = GUIGetMsg()
        Select
            Case $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
                ExitLoop
            Case $msg = $Start
                While ($msg <> $Stop)
                    $msg = GUIGetMsg()
                    ConsoleWrite("Going" & @LF)
                    Sleep(10)
                Wend
                ConsoleWrite("STOPPED" & @LF)
            EndSelect
        WEnd
    EndSwitch
WEnd

When I use this method of stopping a loop using a button, the loop stops but the other buttons on the GUI stop functioning.

Can someone help me out?

You have no way to get out of the while/wend loop you start after the Case $start line unless $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE. Add another ExitLoop after ConsoleWrite("STOPPED" & @LF). Edited December 7, 2008 by martin

[houseonfire]

You have no way to get out of the while/wend loop you start after the Case $start line unless $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE. Add another ExitLoop after ConsoleWrite("STOPPED" & @LF).

Thank you very much. That worked.

[rasim]

houseonfire

Not need to use many loops:

While 1
    $Msg = GUIGetMsg()
    Switch $Msg
        Case $otherfunction
            ;
        Case $start
            While ($Msg <> $Stop)
                $Msg = GUIGetMsg()
                ConsoleWrite("STOPPED" & @LF)
                Sleep(10)
            WEnd
    EndSwitch
WEnd

Edited December 8, 2008 by rasim