Killing a process?

[Naga]

Is there any way to stop a process from running?

I'm doing this game where there's a counter. The counter counts down from 30. However, I want a way to stop it. The game, which is what it's for, has the user move away from an enemy, and you have 30 seconds to do this. If you get hit, the counter has to stop and it loads a small questionnaire, which is like punishment for being caught. I have the counter in a separate process. Is there a way to kill that process once the player gets hit?

[Prince Pwn]

If you press F10 and look up condition it teaches you how to "make a process sleep":

Turing:

% The "condition" program. monitor resource     export request, release     var available : boolean := true     var nowAvailable : condition     procedure request (name : string)         if available then             put "Worker ", name, " needs the pickaxe and it is available"         else             put "Worker ", name, " needs the pickaxe and must wait"             wait nowAvailable           % Go to sleep         end if         put "Worker ", name, " now has the pickaxe"         assert available         available := false              % Allocate resource     end request     procedure release (name : string)         assert not available            % Resource is allocated         available := true               % Free the resource         put "Worker ", name, " is now finished with the pickaxe"         signal nowAvailable             % Wake up one process         % If any are sleeping     end release end resource process worker (name : string)     loop         put "Worker ", name, " is working without the pickaxe"         delay (Rand.Int (1000, 3000))         resource.request (name)                % Block until available         put "Worker ", name, " is using the pickaxe"         delay (Rand.Int (1000, 3000))         resource.release (name)     end loop end worker setscreen ("text") put "Several workers are digging a pit.  Often they need a pickaxe, but" put "they only brought one.  Thus they must share it.", skip fork worker ("A")               % Activate one worker fork worker ("B")               % Activate another worker fork worker ("C")               % Activate another worker

[neufelni]

First of all, you shouldn't be using a process for your counter. You shouldn't be using processes at all, since they are not very good in Turing. Just put the counter in your main loop or in the procedure where your enemy attack is. And it would probably be a good idea to have a boolean variable to tell if you've been hit. Then just add an if statement. You would then have something like this:

pseudo:

var hit : boolean := false var count : int := 30 ... if enemy hits you then     hit := true end if if not hit then     count -= 1 end if

And then when the user is done answering the question, you set the variable hit back to true and reset your count variable to 30.