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Kralle

Hello beautiful people!

Right, so I'm working on some code for a tiny little game, and I was wondering if it's possible to stop a loop which generates elements. When they the meteors collide with "felix" (I have function for that), a game over overlay is shown, but I need to stop that loop from running forever.

function createMeteor() {

  for(var i; i=0; i < 1; i++) {
    var meteor = document.createElement("div");
    meteor.className = "meteor";
    document.getElementById("game").appendChild(meteor);
    meteor.style.left = randomPosition(0, 540) + "px";
    meteor.style.top = document.getElementById("game").offsetHeight + "px";
  }
}

Is it possible to stop this function createMeteor or the loop inside it?

Thanks in advance!

ToxicFire

http://www.ryerson.ca/JavaScript/lectures/flowControl/transfer/breakContinue.html

HugoGiraudel

I feel like I'm missing something here. What is the point of having a for loop when you only have one element?

AndyHowells

Maybe because it's a game he only wants it to run once in this particular case but may need it to run more than once somewhere else. I have no idea.

noahgelman

Use a 'while' loop, not a for loop

treehouse : what would you like to learn today?

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