Another topic about exiting from a loop function

[dogscripter]

Hello everyone, I'm new user, this is my first post so welcome  I hope to have a great time.

So, I always read about interesting topics and learned many things, even if my programming skill is like 1/10 compared to some usere here, but I'm kinda happy of the small work I'm doing with autoit overall.

Yesterday I started a new project, implementing the GUI interface with KODA with some buttons, for the first time.. very intuitive and easy to understand I must say. Though, I ran into a problem, I searched on web, there are many topics even here but because of my low knowledge I don't understand the solution at 100% .

Basically time ago I made a very simple bot kinda like this that was running on background: My aim was to press "W" every 1minute on the Notepad application, until closed from the tray icon bar.

while 1=1
    ControlSend("Notepad", "", "", "{w}")
    sleep (60000) ; waits 1 minute
WEnd

Now I want to do the same function, but controlled by two buttons, start and stop so I created

$startbutton = GUICtrlCreateButton("Start", 145, 88, 49, 25)
$stopbutton = GUICtrlCreateButton("Stop", 145, 115, 49, 25)

Case $startbutton
    Call ("loop")

Where "loop" is the loop function created before the "GUI while 1".

Problem obviously is when i click start, it calls the function "loop" who has itself a while 1=1 and a sleep inside, so the only way to stop it closing the program with alt f4, the

Case $stopbutton

can't operate since the program is running a while loop with a sleep, outside the gui table.

Any easy way to fix this? I maybe be succesfull with an hotkey, but I want to press a "stop" button somewhere in the form, rather then pressin a physical key on my keyboard.

Hope you understand me, thanks for any help, appreciated! Have a good day.

[jchd]

Post your whole script.

[dogscripter]

-snip-

Here u go the source code.

Edited July 2, 2017 by Jos

[Jos]

41 minutes ago, dogscripter said:

bots\autoit\wow\wow bot\whb.kxf

You nearly made it generic enough ... but forgot that file path. Oh well ... shit happens so here goes:

@dogscripter,

Welcome to the AutoIt forum.

Unfortunately you appear to have missed the Forum rules on your way in. (there is also a link in my signature) 
Please read them now particularly the bit about not discussing game automation - and then you will understand why you will get no help and this thread will now be locked.

See you soon with a legitimate question I hope.

Jos