Forever Button Doesn't Work

Horsy10

Hi. I was making a program and I needed a block to play a song forever until I pressed the stop button. I found “forever” in control blocks, but it does not work. HEEEEEELP!

Dang259

The “forever” block (loop) does work. If it doesn't, you probably have a mistake in your code.

footsocktoe

Try this…

forever
    play sound [my song v] until done
end

crisostimo

He's asking about being able to stop it with a button click. In this case you don't want to use ‘forever’ you want to use ‘repeat until’. Then have your sprite click set a variable you can check in the condition on ‘repeat until’.

footsocktoe

crisostimo wrote:
He's asking about being able to stop it with a button click. In this case you don't want to use ‘forever’ you want to use ‘repeat until’. Then have your sprite click set a variable you can check in the condition on ‘repeat until’.

set [stop song v] to [false ]
repeat until <(stop song) = [true ]>
play sound [ v] until done
end

when [ v] key pressed
set [stop song v] to [ true]

asivi

footsocktoe wrote:
crisostimo wrote:
He's asking about being able to stop it with a button click. In this case you don't want to use ‘forever’ you want to use ‘repeat until’. Then have your sprite click set a variable you can check in the condition on ‘repeat until’.
set [stop song v] to [false ]
repeat until <(stop song) = [true ]>
play sound [ v] until done
end
when [ v] key pressed
set [stop song v] to [ true]

That script works by pressing a key.
For a sprite button you may do

when this sprite clicked // put this in the sprite button
set [stop song v] to [ true]

Phosphor

Maybe the problem is the “play sound” type of block? There are two kinds.

play sound [ v]

play sound [ v] until done

When each is placed in a forever loop by itself, here's what happens:

forever
    play sound [ v] //The sound stutters and restarts, or maybe you just hear silence. Boo!
end

forever
    play sound [ v] until done //The sound correctly finishes before restarting. Hooray!
end

powercon5

asivi wrote:
footsocktoe wrote:
crisostimo wrote:
He's asking about being able to stop it with a button click. In this case you don't want to use ‘forever’ you want to use ‘repeat until’. Then have your sprite click set a variable you can check in the condition on ‘repeat until’.
set [stop song v] to [false ]
repeat until <(stop song) = [true ]>
play sound [ v] until done
end
when [ v] key pressed
set [stop song v] to [ true]
That script works by pressing a key.
For a sprite button you may do
when this sprite clicked // put this in the sprite button
set [stop song v] to [ true]

also if you want it to straight away you need to add

stop all sounds

so something like this

when this sprite clicked // put this in the sprite button
set [stop song v] to [ true]
stop all sounds

asivi

Let me show you an example with a button for play and stop (with fade out) https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/101142477

Horsy10

Thanks for all your help. Maybe the problem is my browser and computer model.

yellowbunny2021

Problem fixed! thanks to Phosphor, you're amazing thank you!

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