Setting a variable to false with a keybinding to terminate a while loop by pressing

[MaJellin]

Hi,

I'm trying to use a spacebar keybinding to set a variable to "false" so that I can pass that variable into the while loop and then while the loop is running (its a long loop) I can hit the spacebar, turn the variable to false and stop the loop.

How can I do this?

Thanks!

[Steve11235]

The loop has to be running in a thread.

The Object must have a instance boolean that the loop monitors; declare it volatile so that all threads see the same value.

Keybinding is done in AWT/Swing. See the tutorial.