Break out of while loop for listen event?

I want the listen event to fire during a while loop that's in my state_entry(), but apparently it wont let it.

integer Stop = FALSE;
default
{
    state_entry()
    {
          
        ears=llListen(9999,"",NULL_KEY,"");
        while(Stop == FALSE)
        {
        //do stuff
        // want the listen event to fire in this loop
        } 
    }
    listen(integer chan, string name, key id, string msg)
    {
        Stop=TRUE;
    }
}

Any ideas?

A timer is probably a good way of handling this kind of function.

-Adam

Yes, you have to use a timer for that. While any event/function is active and running, additional events just queue up behind it. So your listen event is waiting for the while statement to be done before it fires.

Ty Adam, I actually tried that.

What's happening in the While loop is a prim is getting stretched on its Z axis. It's basically a power meter that goes from 0 to 2.0 M and then back to 0 and starts the process over. Since the minimum time for timer events seems to be .1 seconds, the prim grows really jerkily (is that a word?). The while loop allows a very smooth scale on the prim.

This is where llSetScriptState() might come handy.

Not positive if this will work for scripts that are "stuck" in a loop, but try:

Script 1: Listens for incoming listener event. Turns the second script on and off as needed.
Script 2: Constant scale change loop.

Like crystal said use 2 scripts and if you want to run the loop again reset it later useing:

llResetOtherScript();

If your object figured out power for a gauge or something like that, you could get the scale of the prim to get that value.

Thanks folks, just gonna use the timer event and not fuss with it anymore lol

Thanks again!
-Syn