A little bit of lua help

[Hockeytree]

I'm trying to write some LUA for the first time and I need help with one statement. If i wanted something to come up when you press x and then go away when you press triangle. How would i do that? Heres my code snippet for that one part=

if pad:cross() and menustatus == 2 then
screen:clear(black)
screen:blit(0, 0, image, true)
screen.flip()
System.sleep(3000) -- I actually want it to be forever but i cant tell if nil makes it crash until the triangle exit is done
if pad:triangle() then
end
end

If you could help that would be great!

EDIT: I was surfing the homebrew and developers forums at the same time, could a dev move this?

[Realn0whereman]

im a bit rusty w. lua but i guess pad:triangle() then dosent really have a defined then

i dont recognize screen:clear(black) and system.sleep

[Hockeytree]

Nevermind, mods can close this but heres my code snippet for displaying a picture from a menu if i can help.

this is from my index.lua

if pad:cross() and menustatus == 1 then
dofile("scripts/menu1.lua")
end

if pad:cross() and menustatus == 2 then
dofile("scripts/menu2.lua")
end

And whats in my menu1 or menu2

black = Color.new(0, 0, 0)

pad = Controls.read()

background = Image.load("--image you want to be displayed--")

while true do

screen:clear(black)
screen:blit(0, 0, background, true)
pad = Controls.read()

if pad:triangle() then
break
end

screen.flip()
screen.waitVblankStart()
end

Your picture will load and stay thier until you press triangle.
Not very useful, but I needed it.

[HeaD_ShOt]

you know there is a lua help thread in the development forum

[Hockeytree]

Yep, and thats why I asked for a mod to close this.