Mark, Alright I tried this, and I seemed to get some slightly better results, it didnt fail as quickly. But when I looked into my log of errors, it now says that the p in the p.go is not defined. Heres the exact error: File "C:\Python22\VisionEgg\visionegg-0.9.9-demo\demo\project\stim_project4c.py", line 614, in ? p.go() NameError: name 'p' is not defined I havent had a problem with it before, when it was in the while loop. Any suggestions as to why its becoming a problem now? Sorry if this is a stupid mistake on my part, but any advice that you may have would be much appreciated. -Jeff ________________________________ From: visionegg-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Mark Halko Sent: Tue 7/17/2007 12:52 PM To: visionegg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [visionegg] Re: Terminating a While Loop How about something as simple as: quit_now = False pause = False while not quit_now: if not pause : p.go() for event in pygame.event.get(): if event.type == pygame.locals.KEYDOWN : if event.key == pygame.locals.K_ESCAPE : quit_now = True if event.key == pygame.locals.K_SPACE : pause = not pause You could also set quit_now to True to quit if you reach some criterion level from your experiment. Mark On Jul 17, 2007, at 1:14 PM, Maher, Jeffrey wrote: > Hello, > Im currently working on the following code trying to determine a > way to exit a while loop before the criteria is satisfied. > > i=0 > while i<eval(self.number.get()): > p.go > i=i+1 > > My goal is to set it to a certain key that will either pause the > program, and then resume it once pressed again, or have it exit the > program all-together, either/or would be acceptable. > > I had tried setting it to the "esc" key by doing the following code > that I found while searching for an answer: > if msvcrt.kbhit() and msvcrt.getch() == chr(27): > break > But that just causes the program to fail to start up. > I have also tried: > for event in pygame.event.get(): > if event.type == pygame.locals.KEYDOWN: > if event.key == pygame.locals.K_ESCAPE: > sys.exit() > But this again just causes the program to fail to start up. > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > -Jeff > ====================================== > The Vision Egg mailing list > Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/visionegg > Website: http://www.visionegg.org/mailinglist.html ====================================== The Vision Egg mailing list Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/visionegg Website: http://www.visionegg.org/mailinglist.html