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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 27 2007 - 12:40:35 CDT

Hi,
  If you implemented a GUI in Tcl/Tk, you could implement a "pause" button
or something similar. That gets trickier due to the way you'd have to
process the "loop" as a sequence of events/timeouts/etc, but its doable.

  John

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:56:24AM +0200, pascal.baillod_at_epfl.ch wrote:
> Thanks, John! That works perfectly indeed! I do something like:
>
> # loop over all
>
> set myFrSize [array size myFr]
>
> for {set fr 1} {$fr <= $myFrSize} {incr fr 1} {
> animate goto $myFr($fr)
> display update ui
> sleep 1
> puts $myFr($fr)
> }
>
> I just haven't yet figured out how to stop the loop when I observe an
> interesting frame..
>
> Thanks for any suggestion!
>
> Pascal
>
>
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