Determine if loop()/noLoop() is currently active

Roosey

Quick question, is there a global variable or something equivalent I can use to get a boolean for whether loop() is currently running? I appreciate I can just make one, but if there's one that already exists within Processing I feel it would be best to use it.

I want to have the mousePressed() function to do something similar to below but can't seem to find anything specific for Processing:

void mousePressed(){ if(looping) noLoop(); else loop(); }

Sorry if I've missed an article that covers this :-)

Many thanks.

koogs

There is a variable called looping in the PApplet source. can't investigate further at the moment.

https://github.com/processing/processing/blob/master/core/src/processing/core/PApplet.java#L693

koogs

oh, also a public method called 'isLooping' which would be better

https://github.com/processing/processing/blob/master/core/src/processing/core/PApplet.java#L2565

Roosey

That's exactly what I needed, thank you. Can't believe I didn't look in the source files...

jeremydouglass

Yes, it would be a good idea if isLooping() was documented on the loop() / noLoop() reference pages. It has been around for a long time -- I don't think it is going anywhere....