Unexpected behaviour of globalState

Hey @Benjamin_Horbe!

Thanks for the question.

The issue you are running into is that executionMode: "Background" does not mean the entire action will be run in the background. If you wanted a whole function to run in the background, you would use a callback function like this:

globalState.synqrFriendActive = true;

var num = 0

sf.engine.runInBackground(
    function () {
        while (globalState.synqrFriendActive) {
            log(num)
            num += 1
            sf.wait({
                intervalMs: 1000,
                executionMode: "Background",
            })
        }
    })

In this scenario, sf.engine.runInBackground() will continue running the while loop in the background as expected. If you don't use sf.engine.runInBackground(), then the SF engine will continue indefinitely and never release control for the action to be canceled (without calling "Stop All Running Commands" or restarting SoundFlow).

To stop this kind of loop, you would call something like this from another command:

globalState.synqrFriendActive = null; 

This behavior is more commonly setup as a "runForever" script like this example: