How to detect that the user has clicked on the screen in a GraphWin?

Question

I'm trying to learn Python. I need this loop to keep rolling until I click on the screen.

I tried using win.getMouse but it's not working.

win = GraphWin("game of life", 600, 600)    
win.setCoords(-1, -3, s+1, s+1)

q = True
while q:
    board = iterate(board)
    x = 0
    while x < s:
        y = 0
        while y < s:
            update_color(x, y, board, rec)
            y = y + 1
        x = x + 1
    if win.getMouse():
        q = False

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 13 '17 at 13:08

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Having True as a condition ensures that the code runs until it's broken by n.strip() equaling 'hello'.

while True:
    n = raw_input("Please enter 'hello':")
    if n.strip() == 'hello':
        break

Python docs about while loop

edited Sep 13 '17 at 13:08

n00dl3

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answered Sep 13 '17 at 12:46

Erzi

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 08 '22 at 23:43

You can use checkMouse() instead. It basically checks if the user has clicked anywhere on the screen yet.

win = GraphWin("game of life", 600, 600)  
win.setCoords(-1, -3, s+1, s+1)

q = True
while q:
    board = iterate(board)
    x = 0
    while x < s:
        y = 0
        while y < s:
            update_color(x, y, board ,rec)
            y = y + 1
        x = x + 1
    if win.checkMouse() is not None:  # Checks if the user clicked yet
        q = False  # Better to use the break statement here

Assuming http://mcsp.wartburg.edu/zelle/python/graphics/graphics/node2.html is correct and that the rest of your code is good.

How to detect that the user has clicked on the screen in a GraphWin?

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