Pause Until Button Pushed, Then Continue?!

[brueggz]

Hey, is there a way to pause a procedure, as a new window is showed and to wait until the user pushes the button, and then the procedure goes on? Creating another procedure only for the buttoncommand and writing the whole variable definition code again, seems unefficient.

Right now, the whole thing is going on in one procedure, without the button and the user interaction.
Now I want the user to give a destination path for an data export in the window and to push OK, so it exports the data to the user chosen destination.

Maybe there is a nice way?!

[uiron]

unless you want to show some modal ui - e.g., file save box, message dialog, you're thinking wrong. if it's first one, take a look at fileDialog command. but if you want to break your procedure, let user interact with GUI again and continue running procedure - that's logically two procedures, independed to each other- what if the user won't initiate running the second part or attempt running first part?..etc.

can't you get all user parameters before running the whole thing?

[brueggz]

The fileDialog helped me

So pausing a procedure is not possible. Could save a bit code, but it's not that bad.

[joojaa]

QUOTE(Brueggz @ 04/27/09, 11:02 AM) [snapback]306806[/snapback]
So pausing a procedure is not possible. Could save a bit code, but it's not that bad.

Yes it is its just not the way you THINK about it. Techically you dont pause code, but the ffect is the same the thinking behind it differs.

So what you do is make 2 prcedures 1 for things you do before the intended pause and things you do after the pause, the button push then xcalls the second part.

See problem with pause, not juts in maya, would be it would stop all other execution too! So people dont think that way. If you need code to run you can not block other code.