Hold Key Down

[Ritzky]

I've seen lots of threads where I can hold a key down for a certain period of time, but all of them involve "sleep". What if I want to do other things while the key is being held down? Does AutoIt support this?

Something like: Send("{Up 1000}")

That will press the up arrow 1000 times, is there anyway to hold the key down for 1000ms? (Without using sleep)

[Khryus]

From the help file:

"To hold a key down

Send("{a down}") ;Holds the A key down

Send("{a up}") ;Releases the A key"

Edited September 2, 2012 by megablox

[Bowmore]

What the problem with using sleep(1000)?

[FireFox]

What the problem with using sleep(1000)?

He wants to execute code when the key is held down, he did not know how to do it instead of setting a Sleep which prevents from executing something else.

Br, FireFox.

[Ritzky]

That doesn't hold a key down for a set amount of time, it holds it down forever until I call the KeyUp function.

[AdmiralAlkex]

That doesn't hold a key down for a set amount of time, it holds it down forever until I call the KeyUp function.

Then you call KeyUp after a set amount of time. Look up for example AdlibRegister().