How do I pause script and wait for user input?

[fluffman]

Apologies for my first post being a question but hey I can't help others yet anyways

I need to put in the middle of my script a little pause function that stays paused until I have completed an action and then will probably have to click continue to continue.

I only know how to use the sleep function so far.

I've been reading a lot in the help file and know how helpful it is however I have not found help in it for this. I'm sure there is something for this in there but it probably needs to be pieced together from a few functions which I'm not clever enough to do.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[twitchyliquid64]

Have you heard of a while loop?

They look like this:

While (condition)

do something

Wend

The 'do something' will keep happening as long as the condition is true.

For the condition you could check a variable, like 'while $x = 1'

While $x=1

do functions

Wend

This specific statement means that it will do the functions between while $x =1 and wend, if x is equal to one.

Remembering that a dollar sign symbolizes a variable/pronumeral...

But you would like in your condition for it to be while the click is not pressed.

So look at the _ispressed function or similar, and don't forget to prefix it with 'not' so that it loops/waits while the button is not pressed, not while it is.

Edited January 30, 2011 by hyperzap

[fluffman]

Thanks hyperzap this really gets me somewhere! I had not head much about loops and not at all about the while loop.

I will of course have to go to the help file and read about everything you mentioned though.

But I have a much better idea of where I can go from here now. Ty.

[Skitty]

Thanks hyperzap this really gets me somewhere! I had not head much about loops and not at all about the while loop.

I will of course have to go to the help file and read about everything you mentioned though.

But I have a much better idea of where I can go from here now. Ty.

Try Msgbox(0,"Operation halted","Continue?")