AS Game System

[Boltrig]

Hey just a quick question.

I need to get user input inside a while loop. The format is kinda as follows:

while (enemyShips > 0)
{
//get the user to select a weapon
}

The user selects their weapon to fire via buttons. What Im not sure of is general syntax and how to put an onRelease statement in there. Will this affect the loop or just halt it until the user clicks something?

Thanks in advance guys.

[GustTheASGuy]

All AS runs in a single thread. The loop statements are for processing only. Ofcourse you can set and call the event from inside the loop but Flash itself won't respond until all code is done (or if the code exceeds fifteen seconds of running). You don't need to delay stuff like that in Flash, there's the timeline.

[EvanHayes]

if you want it to halt,set a variable in an on press fuction or somthing,and that while loop wont stop until the ships are above 0,but i guess i dont get what your saying beacuse you diddnt ask a question,you just said you had a problem with the loop,but if you want,upload the fla and ill fix it,or just upload the swf

[GustTheASGuy]

He is talking about a basic wait approach in programming, a thread does an empty loop until another gives it go. It's kinda silly because it loops a billion times a second for no reason, but it simply takes lots more code to run at an interval only.
AS is diffirent because all code is in a single thread. Thus you must do it the other way around and use the on-release event to check for the count in.