How can I slow down the script playback speed?

[uri]

How can I slow down the palyback speed of a script so people can actually see the sequence on the screen.

I used screen capture SW that generated a movie of the sequence, but if I can slow down AutoIt I can

have a solution that is both functional and can be used for demonstration.

I am looking for a global solution and not adding sleep() command after each line :-)

Thanks for your help

Uri

[Xenobiologist]

If you are using a function to update your pics, then maybe one sleep command in that function could be enough.

[uri]

  On 8/1/2010 at 11:11 AM, 'Xenobiologist said:

If you are using a function to update your pics, then maybe one sleep command in that function could be enough.

I was probably misunderstood. I used the screen capture SW before using AutoIt. Now I want to avoid using

the screen capture SW and use ONLY AutoIt. I wrote a script that run a scenario of an application and I want

to show it to other people in a speed that they can follow, and when the script ends they can continue using

the application from that point.

Uri

[Xenobiologist]

Sorry, and what should Autoit do for you? Run slower? What about using CamStudio and creating a little movie about how your script performs?

[uri]

I am looking at a SW verification/development environment where the verification team can send bug reports to the development team using AutoIt scrpits. If the playback speed can be controlled, than the script can replace a movie and also be functional, whereas the movie is not functional (so it doesn't really reproduce the bug)

This is not an unusual feature for macro recorders, most ones that I looked at have this feature like WorkspaceMacro or WinAutomation and also WindowTester

It is fairly simple to write a script that will add sleep(1000) after each functional line, but I think it should be a parameter defined with an Opt() command.

[uri]

Just as an example, WindowTester has three playback parameters:

- Delay between keystrokes

- Delay after widget clicks (this is like control click in AutoIt)

- Delay between mouse move increments

[Xenobiologist]

Ah I see, I guess there is no option to get what you want, but maybe this is another (not very nice) but a way to get a bit close to it.

AdlibRegister('_slowDown', 1000)

While 1
    Sleep(100)
WEnd

Func _yourscript()
    For $i = 0 To 5
        ConsoleWrite($i & ' ' & @SEC & ':' & @MSEC & @CRLF)
    Next
EndFunc ;==>_yourscript

Func _slowDown()
    _yourscript()
EndFunc ;==>_slowDown

Mega

P.S.: This only works for the whole script and not single commands with additional sleeps.

Edited August 2, 2010 by Xenobiologist

[Xenobiologist]

  On 8/2/2010 at 11:39 AM, 'uri said:

Just as an example, WindowTester has three playback parameters:

- Delay between keystrokes

- Delay after widget clicks (this is like control click in AutoIt)

- Delay between mouse move increments

You have

MouseClickDelay Alters the length of the brief pause in between mouse clicks.

Time in milliseconds to pause (default=10). MouseClickDownDelay Alters the length a click is held down before release.

Time in milliseconds to pause (default=10). MouseClickDragDelay Alters the length of the brief pause at the start and end of a mouse drag operation.

Time in milliseconds to pause (default=250).

SendKeyDelay <a name="SendKeyDelay">Alters the the length of the brief pause in between sent keystrokes. A value of 0 removes the delay completely.

Time in milliseconds to pause (default=5). SendKeyDownDelay Alters the length of time a key is held down before being released during a keystroke. For applications that take a while to register keypresses (and many games) you may need to raise this value from the default. A value of 0 removes the delay completely.

Time in milliseconds to pause (default=5).

[uri]

Thanks for your answer,

I saw the MouseClikDelay and the SendKeyDelay,

What is missing is also a "ControlClickDelay" which will be a default delay

after a ControlClick.

[Theri]

You could write your own function, call it ControlClickDelay with all the parameters for ControlClick with one more for the delay time, then call a ControlClick(params) with a sleep after.