main loop


main loop

[′mān ‚lüp] (computer science) A set of instructions that constitute the primary structure of a repetitive computer program.

main loop

(programming)The top-level control flow construct in aninput- or event-driven program, the one which receives andacts or dispatches on the program's input events.

See also driver.

main loop

The primary logic in a program. A program is essentially an input-process-output architecture, and everything happens when there is an input, such as a mouse click, mouse movement, keyboard depression or an arriving network packet. The main loop takes care of this by continually testing for these inputs and calling the appropriate routines to process them. See loop and event loop.