How can you "exit on command"

[1337 Tur1n6 5ki11z0rZ]

Im trying to make a program, and this is the one thing I really cant get.
Im wondering how to make it so that when the user pushes a character
it exits the program at ANY GIVEN TIME. (eg in the middle of pics, upcoming text, etc)

Any feedback would be appreciated.
-Thanks

[Dan]

I belvie that the return comand will exit out of the progame. I am not 100% shure b/c i do not have turing at work nor do i have the turing doc here.

[Delos]

How well do you know OOT GUI? If you look into it, there are definitely ways of doing this, though you'd be using the GUI in a pseudo- fashion, since you'd not need to make use of any of the pretty buttons or scrolls bars. Just the fact that it all runs in a loop. If you're interested in this method, then post up your attempt at it and I'll see if I can point you in a less confusing direction.

[Notoroge]

hint, look up "process" and "fork" in the Turing help guide.

[void]

umm...my guess...try creating a process thats made to close the window
Window.Close ()
and then fork it with ur main process...i dunno if thats efficient tho

[Notoroge]

void wrote:

umm...my guess...try creating a process thats made to close the window
Window.Close ()
and then fork it with ur main process...i dunno if thats efficient tho

Close, but not really.

[Notoroge]

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[AsianSensation]

well, I never liked processes, so here is another solution, without using forks:

code:

loop     if hasch then         return     end if end loop

that should work. Basicly, it checks to see whether a key has been pressed, and then the return statement will exit out of your program.

[Notoroge]

Wouldn't the program be stuck in that loop though? And I thought the whole point of it was to be able to exit the program at any given point while it was doing something else; which is the whole purpose of "forking". Or maybe I'm missing something.

[AsianSensation]

Well, I assumed his program will contain a main loop at least.

So during anywhere in his main loop, have the if hasch return statement will make him exit.

*Edit: Nvm then, he did say ANYTIME right? That would mean anytime. So process and forking is probably the only way to go. Even though I hate processes.......

You could always just do:

code:

process GARBAGE     loop         if hasch then             return         end if     end loop end GARBAGE fork GARBAGE

[Notoroge]

Which is exactly what I was implying.

[void]

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[1337 Tur1n6 5ki11z0rZ]

Wow,
I got a lot of replys so quickly... I didn't expect so much advice so soon.
Thanks for all the feedback, but I left out one 'thing' in my original
post... I want to make a DESIGNATED KEY in which the user pushes to terminate the program. Not like 'hasch' that makes the program exit when ANY key is hit. Basically what I want to accomplesh is to create a DESIGNATED KEY, and when the user pushes this key the program terminates.
For future replys please use 'e' as the designated key to exit, for that is what I am going to use in my program.

-Thanks again

[Delos]

Then instead of hasch you could use getch(), or even better Input.KeyDown().
As a last resort, you could use the quit command, but that never looks pretty...no, never at all. (Hence my advice on using GUI, since there also exists GUI.Quit...which could theoretically work).

[1337 Tur1n6 5ki11z0rZ]

Can anyone please post an example of how this works? =)

-Thanks