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Topic: Forcibly Exit loop()? (Read 255 times) |
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battey
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Forcibly Exit loop()?
« on: Oct 16th, 2003, 12:07am » |
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Is there a way to forcibly exit loop?
i.e.
Draw() allows all processing to complete before drawing.
Loop() allows something to go on forever.
But if we want to animate something or build a drawing gradually using the framerate control of loop, but then stop the program now that it has completed its task...?
Of course, I can put a test inside loop that makes it stop animating once a certain condition is reached. But loop() is still running until Processing is stopped. Not a big problem, I guess.
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benelek
 
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Re: Forcibly Exit loop()?
« Reply #1 on: Oct 16th, 2003, 9:57am » |
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if you put everything in an if() statement inside the loop(), and have none of it running when it doesn't need to be (as you suggested), then very little processor useage will be eaten, if that's what you're worried about. if you want to be even more conservational, you can lower the framerate to close to zero when you're not doing anything.
or you could custom thread your sketch and just not have the thread re-run itself when you're finished 
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