Wait for user input in middle of method

I have a method in the middle of which I want to give the user a chance to click one of several Buttons. Here is the basic design of the method:
Private Sub MyMethod()
'Code before I need extra input
'This is where I want to wait for the user to click a Button
'This is where I will be using the results from the clicked Button
'The waiting for input and using the results will happen multiple times inside a loop
End Sub
The code is in a loop, so exiting the method and putting the rest of the code in the Button handler would not be appropriate. How can I ask the user for input and then return that input to the method where I left? I seem to be tempted to use some kind of async
method, but since the input will be coming from the user (not another method), that doesn't seem like it would be right (but I don't have a huge amount of experience with async, so I could be wrong about that). Can anybody help me? Thanks.
Nathan Sokalski [email protected] http://www.nathansokalski.com/

Hi Nathan,
You're on the right track: you'll need to await an Async function to put a delay in the middle of your method. The button click will notify the async function to finish.
You could write a custom function which returns a Task and waits for the notification from the button:
Task WaitForButtonClickAsync()
// wait for button click
and then await that in your main function:
async void BigNastyFunction()
await WaitForButtonClickAsync();
The next question is how to let the button click notify WaitForButtonClickAsync to return.
We could spin up a worker thread and have it block waiting on a notification, but there is no need to complicate things like that: WaitForButtonClickAsync can just return
Task.Delay(timeout, cancellation token) and then when the button click handler fires it can cancel the delay.
See
Asynchronous Programming with Async and Await and
Async Cancellation: Bridging between the .NET Framework and the Windows Runtime for more information on cancelling a task.

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The way actionScript works it isn’t really designed to work that way
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Please excuse me if I am telling you things you already know.
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The easier way to do this is to collect the info with zenity first, then pass it on the command line. If the program insists on prompting, then you could try feeding it the info with redirection if it accepts it from stdin. For example
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/* Now I can test the value of n_AlertButton for 1 or 2 to find out what button the user selected. */
IF ( n_AlertButton = 1 ) THEN
     /* Do something, because the user selected 'OK' */
ELSE
     /* It is assumed at this point that the user selected 'CANCEL' */
     /* Stop processing any further. */
     RAISE form_trigger_error;
END IF;
END:Hope this helps.
Craig...
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How do I prompt for user input in PL/SQL?
I am writing a piece of code where the user may choose, by clicking either of three buttons on an alert, to have the system assign a value to a variable, to input a value or to do neither?OK, you're doing that in Forms...
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