thanks for the reply mate,
sorry im beying vauge ive been working on this for several hours and my brain is loosing the race
basicaly i just need to figure out how to get an if-else chain to terminate the loop when i have a plank input dialog box (or a specific entry) and to continue the loop if it is not blank (or is not equal to a specific entry, such as "quit"
thanks once again, i hope this clears up what i am trying to convey