Scite (Single Key to stop running script?)

[careca]

Hi, is it possible to make a change somewhere, somehow, to stop the script from scite with a single key of choice? Right now, if i remember right, the way to stop a script is by pressing ctrl-break or something like that, i was wondering if i can change this to F6 or some key thats free.

[Bowmore]

Unless you have disabled it via opt() pressing Esc should stop the running script .

[careca]

Ok thank you, but i still would like to know if i can change the stop key..

[JLogan3o13]

You can also set a HotKey to exit. Look in the helpfile under HotKeySet.

[Melba23]

Bowmore,

pressing Esc should stop the running script

Not so.

The Opt option you are thinking of is GUICloseOnESC. AutoIt normally interprets ESC as a $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE event and closes the script GUI - the Opt can change this behaviour. But ESC does not stop a script with no GUI as you can see if you run this simple code:

While 1
    Sleep(10)
WEnd

All clear?

M23

[PhoenixXL]

Create a script that

• would look for {F5}
• get the latest PID of Autoit.exe or occurance of Autoit.exe [through WMI]
• would set a HotKey of your own choice to terminate the process when activated
• and unset the HotKey when the PID of that process doesnt exist

[JLogan3o13]

Or, you could make it simple, something like this.

HotKeySet("{F5}", "Quit")

While 1
 Sleep(1000)
WEnd

Func Quit()
 Exit
EndFunc

[PhoenixXL]

You can try capturing [Ctrl+Break] and proceed as said by JLogan3o13

[careca]

Thank you all, i understand the hotkey idea, but thats not what im looking for, sometimes, in some applications, the hotkeys are set on a plain text file, or ini, or something like that, and my idea was to be able to change Ctrl+Break hotkeybind to something else, you can call it bindings list or whatever. See what i mean? I was thinking this could be done in the SciTe config files.. Anyone know what im talking about?

Has happened to me before, some situations where the script was looping and stuck and no hotkeys would work, had to close it from scite, thats what i need, but with a more accessible key.

[Bowmore]

@Melba23

Thanks, I had not realised that Esc only triggered a $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE event. I must pay more attention to the help file.

[Melba23]

Bowmore,

I must pay more attention to the help file

A good New Year's resolution for us all!

M23

[Jos]

When you use the full version of SciTE4AutoIt3 you can use Ctrl+Alt+F5 to interrupt the running of Autoit3wrapper and the shelled autoit3.

When you use the lite version you could add something like the following to SciTE User:

user.shortcuts=\
Ctrl+x|IDM_STOPEXECUTE|

Ctrl+x will now interrupt the process. Be aware this will not work with the Full version in combination with AutoIt3Wrapper.

Let me know when you have questions,

Jos

[careca]

Thank you, that is on the track with what im looking for, but i don't really use the lite version, as i find it, well, too "lite".

Question is, how can i do the same in the full version? If possible.

[Jos]

Thank you, that is on the track with what im looking for, but i don't really use the lite version, as i find it, well, too "lite".

Question is, how can i do the same in the full version? If possible.

AutoIt3Wrapper has the Ctrl+Alt+F5 for restart and Ctrl+Break shortcut by default to interrupt the execution.

That is hardcode in AutoIt3Wrapper so you need to modify the provided source yourself.

Jos

Edited January 8, 2013 by Jos

[careca]

Thank you, thats what i needed to know.

[Jos]

I take that back... the posted solution will also work for the full version of SciTE. Just give it a try.

Edited January 8, 2013 by Jos

[careca]

solution will also work for the full version of SciTE. Just give it a try.

Thank you very much!

Just did, and it works perfectly, even tried with a single key and it worked.

This is exactly what i was looking for, although, is there a reason i can't use F6?

Is it because its reserved for AU3Info and recorder, so i cant bind to that key?

It must be that, because with F4, it works! and this is next to perfect.

Sometimes i just want to test the gui, a quick button position check or something,

and with f5 to start and f4 to stop, its just what i needed, some may argue that i could click to close,

but i don't care, i like practical stuff. Thanks a million!

[VAN0]

On 1/8/2013 at 2:47 PM, Jos said:

 

AutoIt3Wrapper has the Ctrl+Alt+F5 for restart and Ctrl+Break shortcut by default to interrupt the execution.

That is hardcode in AutoIt3Wrapper so you need to modify the provided source yourself.

 

Jos

9 years later, is there a way to disable/overwrite the default hotkeys? (I'm trying use VSCode editor and this hotkey interfere)

[Danp2]

@VAN0Are you using the AutoIt extension for VSCode?

[VAN0]

Yes, I'm trying to extend it to handle properly multiple launched scripts:

https://github.com/loganch/AutoIt-VSCode/pull/99