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Asok

Sat May 24, 2003 9:04 am


How to stop a process?

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ok I've got:

process gtch
    getch (direction)
end gtch

running via:

fork gtch

I'd like to know how to halt this process. Thanks.


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Dan

Sat May 24, 2003 12:55 pm



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insted of using a proces i whould use:


if hasch then
    getch (direction)
end if


and put that in your main loop, but if you think you real have to use a proces i whould put some kind of if and a golabe varible that will will be set to ture or false. if it is flase it will no longer get the ch.


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Tony

Sat May 24, 2003 1:00 pm



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if you use Input.KeyDown you dont event have to check if anything is pressed or not... all variables are just set to false ;)


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Asok

Sat May 24, 2003 1:26 pm



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I tried doing the boolean thing dan, it still checks the process, I'm sure there has to be a function or a method to actually stop check it.


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Tony

Sat May 24, 2003 4:39 pm



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wait, what the heck are you halting there anyway? your process isn't even a loop.. it just sits there and waits for input


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Asok

Sat May 24, 2003 5:22 pm



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well that's the sample code...

realistically it's:

loop
fork gtch
end loop


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JSBN

Sat May 24, 2003 5:52 pm



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use boolean data

procedure forkyMcFork
if stop = false then
run fork
end if
end forkyMcFork

loop
forkyMcFork
if a = b then
stop = true
end if
end loop




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Asok

Sat May 24, 2003 9:38 pm



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JSBN, tried it before I posted. still gets hung on getch in the process...