Breaking a loop with a function

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Before you tell me that there has already been a topic posted on this, please note that i’m trying to break the loop AS SOON as the player clicks on a button, which is why i was trying to use a function instead of an if statement. I know you can’t break a loop with a function, so if anybody knows how to break the loop as soon as the button is pressed, please leave a reply.

Here’s the code:

local function MainMenuCamera()
	while wait()do
		script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
			Animation1:Cancel()
			Animation3:Cancel()
			camera.CFrame = workspace.CameraE1.CFrame
			break
		end)
		camera.CFrame = Camera1.CFrame
		Animation1:Play()
		Animation1.Completed:Wait()
		camera.CFrame = Camera5.CFrame
		Animation3:Play()
		Animation3.Completed:Wait()
	end
end

Any help would be greatly appreciated! :+1:

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To be honest, I don’t like it when MouseButton1Click gets defined/created within a loop, which means that there would be lots of connections to it.

My suggestion is to take that connection outside of the while loop and create a new variable like local cancel = false. On the loop, you can have it check if it’s true, if it is, use break.

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you can use couroutines and couroutine.yield() and coroutine.resume()
and alsot there’s something called ‘break’ which stops a loop

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canLoop = true


while wait() and canLoop do
	camera.CFrame = Camera1.CFrame
	Animation1:Play()
	Animation1.Completed:Wait()
	camera.CFrame = Camera5.CFrame
	Animation3:Play()
	Animation3.Completed:Wait()
end


button.MouseClick:Connect(function()
canLoop = false
Animation1:Stop()
Animation3:Stop()
camera.CFrame = workspace.CameraE1.CFrame
end)
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This wouldn’t break the loop this wouldnt run it

canLoop = true

local function MainMenuCamera()
	while wait() do
if not canLoop then
break
end
		camera.CFrame = Camera1.CFrame
		Animation1:Play()
		Animation1.Completed:Wait()
		camera.CFrame = Camera5.CFrame
		Animation3:Play()
		Animation3.Completed:Wait()
	end
end

button.MouseClick:Connect(function()
canLoop = false
end)
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that does the same thing
30char

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No, one breaks it and one prevents it from running as returning false when canloop ~= true

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Except it clearly shows a separate function, so the click Connect can actually happen.

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I’ll try to use cortoutines. I’ll let you know if it worked or not :+1:

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it runs while canLoop == true, as soon as its false, it breaks.

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Don’t while loops only break when the condition is met when the loop starts, not during the loop?

I’m still trying to understand how the system works :stuck_out_tongue:

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It doesn’t breaks!!
it’s just stops working doesnt means it breaks

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the opposite, it will run as soon as the script starts, and while canLoop == true, it will run. As soon as its false, it will stop

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The logic is equivalent. A while check is checked on every iteration.

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Jesus i’m so stupid. All this time i thought that’s how it worked. I might have gotten the logic mixed up with how if statements worked inside the actual while loop