[Scilab-users] user terminate program (exit while loop)

[aweeks at hidglobal.com]

Hi Pascal,

Further to my previous e-mail, I tested a few ideas.
If you add a print statement to the StopLoop function you can see what
values come back as the mouse is moved.

function StopLoop(win, x, y, ibut)
    global stoploop;

    mprintf(" win: %d  x: %d  y: %d  ibut: %d\n", win, x, y, ibut)

    if ibut == -1000 then stoploop = %t; end
    if ibut == 3 then
        stoploop = %t;
        mprintf("Loop stopped.\n");
    end
endfunction

Values are only returned when the mouse cursor is over the graphics window
to which the event handler is attached. This is true even if the 'focus' is
not on that window.
However, no value seems to be returned when a keyboard key is pressed
unless the 'focus' is on the graphics window and the mouse cursor is in the
window.  This is a little disappointing - it would have been nice to be
able to 'press any key to stop loop'.

To anyone else who may be reading this:

	Is there a way to switch the 'windows focus' onto a particular window
from within the running SciLab program?

	Is there any chance that a function equivalent to the Borland Turbo C
function 'kbhit' could be added to future versions of SciLab?

Best wishes,
Adrian.

                                          
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  From:       "Fahrni Pascal (fahn)" <fahn at zhaw.ch>                                                                               
                                                                                                                                  
  To:         "users at lists.scilab.org" <users at lists.scilab.org>                                                                   
                                                                                                                                  
  Date:       25/06/2014 21:15                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                  
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Dear scilab users,

I’m using a scilab script to monitor a serial port, read from it and do
some calculations based on that data. The program is wrapped by a while
loop and contains an xpause statement. What is the best way to allow the
user to terminate the program by user input?

Best wishes
Pascal
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