Safely ending a loop without ending the script

[rawkhopper]

Hello guys and girls, I have a script I have been working on.  I finally figured out how to avoid the dreaded stack overflow issues I was having with my loops.  Now I find myself in the awkward position of not knowing how to safely stop my loops without closing my GUI.  When the script ends I want the GUI to just sit there as is until someone hits the close button. 

If I do:

While 1
    Sleep (1000)
WEnd

Will that cause a recursion level has been exceeded error eventually or is this safe to run indefinitely? 

 

 

[ViciousXUSMC]

There is no recursion in that loop its not back referencing anything it can run forever.

Depending on the script you may want a lower sleep value as a full second can cause some erratic behavior, even a small sleep is enough to save a lot of cpu cycles. 

[rawkhopper]

Thanks a bunch!!

[Aelc]

If there are more than 1 script at the same time you could use

Do
Sleep ( 50 )
Until Processexists("script1.exe") <> True

inside the same script you could use Exitloop to keep the script alive and getting out of the loop. But leaving the loop without having another will end the script and the GUI...

You could also use a trigger like

$trigger = True
While $trigger

sleep(50)
If Processexists("script1.exe") <> True then $trigger = False
Wend

hope that helps