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<viztask>.waitButtonDown

Wait for a specified GUI button press

<viztask>.waitButtonDown(  
button  
)  
button
Button to wait for.

If button is a sequence, then the Condition will wait for one of the buttons to be pressed.

If button is None, then the Condition will wait for any button to be pressed.

Remarks

This command will create a Condition object that will wait for the specified GUI object to be pressed.

The yielded command returns a viz.Data object with the following information about the condition:

Properties

button

The button that was pressed

time

The precise time of the button press

Return Value

viztask.Condition object

Example

import viztask

mybutton = viz.addButton( pos = (0.5,0.5,0) )

def MyTask():

    while True:

        yield viztask.waitButtonDown(mybutton)

        print('My button was pressed')

viztask.schedule( MyTask() )

See also

<viztask>.waitButtonUp