[RESOLVED]Touch event or Storyboard/exitScene causes early exit from function?

Getting Started Newbie Questions
#1

Background: I’m making a children’s BookApp and need the
 audio/text sync to stop when the user turns the page.  So far I tried using a Boolean variable is
changed to true when touch event occurs, then test if it is true during each
loop in textSync function, but it doesn’t work. 
I have no idea what to even search for to look for similar
examples.  Thank you for helping.

 

Sample of what I have tried:

local touchDetected = 0 local function testPrint( ) for i=1, 300000 do print( i ) if touchDetected == 1 then break end end end local function onScreenTouch( event ) print("touch") touchDetected = 1 end -- begin listening for screen touches Runtime:addEventListener( "touch", onScreenTouch ) testPrint()
#2

I’ve been thinking and maybe there would be some way to have Storyboard exitScene exit a function that is still running; but how?

#3

I’ve been thinking and maybe there would be some way to have Storyboard exitScene exit a function that is still running; but how?

#4

Since there are a couple people following this topic I thought I would share my solution, I’m using the .cancel function.

Example:

local Rectangles = {} local moveRectangles = {} display.setDefault( "background", 0, 0, 255 ) --display rectangles for i = 1,5 do Rectangles[i] = display.newRect(0, i\*100, 50, 50) end --move rectangles for i = 1,5 do moveRectangles[i] = transition.to(Rectangles[i], {time=13000, delay=500, x=575}) end local function cancelMoveRectangles () --cancel move rectangles & reset to start position for i = 1,5 do transition.cancel(moveRectangles[i]) Rectangles[i].x = 0+25 end end local function listener(event) cancelMoveRectangles () end Runtime:addEventListener("touch", listener )
#5

Since there are a couple people following this topic I thought I would share my solution, I’m using the .cancel function.

Example:

local Rectangles = {} local moveRectangles = {} display.setDefault( "background", 0, 0, 255 ) --display rectangles for i = 1,5 do Rectangles[i] = display.newRect(0, i\*100, 50, 50) end --move rectangles for i = 1,5 do moveRectangles[i] = transition.to(Rectangles[i], {time=13000, delay=500, x=575}) end local function cancelMoveRectangles () --cancel move rectangles & reset to start position for i = 1,5 do transition.cancel(moveRectangles[i]) Rectangles[i].x = 0+25 end end local function listener(event) cancelMoveRectangles () end Runtime:addEventListener("touch", listener )