I've been wondering if this is possible to duplicate in some way in sexscripts. I'm at a loss because all uses of buttons seem to freeze the script. Is it possible to have a button just sit until it is clicked?



Most people probably know this but just for the users who might not; The above code would give you 30 seconds to click the button and be directed to [BlockSuccess], if 30s pass without a a click from the user you would be redirected to [BlockTimeOut].

Ideally in SS we could use a passive button to sit idle during loops without freezing the script then upon being clicked could break a loop or set a value, anything. I'm pretty rusty in legit programming languages, but I can't figure it out, if anyone has a way I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

What I wish was possible:

What you want is parrallel computing, something that is not simple (groovy would be able to do it, but the solution will not please you).
But there is an optional argument in showButton() that would do the trick, in this case :

5 means : wait at most 5 seconds, return the time waiting (5 if the user did not click).

I tried this script out today and found I needed to change it to:

Did I do something wrong initially, or is the correction needed? Defining 'i' outside the loop seemed to solve my original issue of not having it recognize 'i' when I tried to show it later.

Yes, you need this if you want to use "i" later. A variable (like "i") if defined only in its blocks (things bounded with "{" "}" ).