Newbie Question

[Refl3ct]

Hey,

I am making a program that has a continuous loop, all up the "cycle" takes around 30 seconds, even after I close the program the loop continues to run (seeing as it includes a mouse_event it is quite annoying).

I was wondering how I could add a "Stop" button, that kills all processes the program is running but keeps it open?

Thanks.

[Pino]

Hey,

I am making a program that has a continuous loop, all up the "cycle" takes around 30 seconds, even after I close the program the loop continues to run (seeing as it includes a mouse_event it is quite annoying).

I was wondering how I could add a "Stop" button, that kills all processes the program is running but keeps it open?

Thanks.

What you need to do is have a varible, like stop (boolen) and then you loop should be like

do until stop = true
'loop stuff
 
loop

all you have to do is set stop to true when you exit the program

[zubairkhan]

declare LoopValue variable below the option explicit
On form load event write keyprivew = true
write a procedure in keydown event of form

Private Sub Form_KeyDown(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)
    If KeyCode = vbKeyF10 Then
        LoopValue = 30
     endif
End Sub

now call this routine within the loop

[Refl3ct]

That doesn't stop it mid-loop. As I said it's a kind of long loop, and I want to be able to stop mid-way through it. (Instantly).

Edit - reading above post.