Script only does 1 line then wait then terminate

[AchterlijkeVleugel]

sleep(random(350,500,1))
send ("{s down}")
sleep(random(350,500,1))
send ("{s down}")
sleep(random(350,500,1))
send ("{s down}")
sleep(random(350,500,1))
send ("{s down}")
sleep(random(350,500,1))
send ("{s down}")
sleep(random(350,500,1))
send ("{s down}")
sleep(random(350,500,1))
send ("{s down}")
sleep(random(350,500,1))
send ("{s down}")
sleep(random(350,500,1))
send ("{s down}")

So im trying to get this script done, but it only sends s one time.

Also how do i terminate a script with a hotkey?

Edited February 18, 2015 by AchterlijkeVleugel

[jdelaney]

you can't press the s, when it's already 'down'.

Either just send "s", or send it back 'up'.

[AchterlijkeVleugel]

sleep(random(350,500,1))
send ("{s down}")
Sleep(50)
send ("{s up}")
sleep(random(350,500,1))
send ("{s down}")
Sleep(50)
send ("{s up}")
sleep(random(350,500,1))
send ("{s down}")
Sleep(50)
send ("{s up}")
sleep(random(350,500,1))

Now i  got this, and it only repeats 2 send s rotations(s up and down)

[Jos]

No it does type 3 times an s.

Jos

[jdelaney]

Who knows what the app accepting the sends is doing...send is one of the most unreliable functions you can use, but your script is certainly sending s 3 times to some application, or whatever.

Edited February 18, 2015 by jdelaney

[AchterlijkeVleugel]

Is there an alternative for send then?

[jdelaney]

ControlSetText

[Jos]

Is there an alternative for send then?

Sure, so what is it you are trying to automate?

[AchterlijkeVleugel]

Sure, so what is it you are trying to automate?

Honestly im just trying to understand the au3 language better, im sending to a word document atm. 

But i would also like to navigate in map folders, with arrow keys for example.

Edited February 18, 2015 by AchterlijkeVleugel

[Jos]

Honestly im just trying to understand the au3 language better, im sending to a word document atm. 

Sure...

[AchterlijkeVleugel]

Sure...

?

[jdelaney]

Note: this won't work on game automation, so don't even waste your time:

Run("notepad.exe")
$w = WinWait("[CLASS:Notepad]","",10)
$c = ControlGetHandle($w,"",15)
ControlSetText($w,"",$c,ControlGetText($w,"",$c) & "s")
ControlSetText($w,"",$c,ControlGetText($w,"",$c) & "s")
ControlSetText($w,"",$c,ControlGetText($w,"",$c) & "s")



Edited February 18, 2015 by jdelaney

[AchterlijkeVleugel]

Note: this won't work on game automation, so don't even waste your time:

Run("notepad.exe")
$w = WinWait("[CLASS:Notepad]","",10)
$c = ControlGetHandle($w,"",15)
ControlSetText($w,"",$c,ControlGetText($w,"",$c) & "s")
ControlSetText($w,"",$c,ControlGetText($w,"",$c) & "s")
ControlSetText($w,"",$c,ControlGetText($w,"",$c) & "s")



Oh you guys think im trying to bot, haha now Jos' comment makes sense to me.

Well im really not trying to bot a game.

What is the difference between winwait/winactive/winwaitactive

Also doesnt the repeating of winwait cause the script to be slower?

Why didnt u make a variable for controlgettext?

[SadBunny]

Oh you guys think im trying to bot, haha now Jos' comment makes sense to me.

Well im really not trying to bot a game.

What is the difference between winwait/winactive/winwaitactive

Also doesnt the repeating of winwait cause the script to be slower?

Why didnt u make a variable for controlgettext?

 

Answering in order:

1) Well, given your other questions on the forum (waiting for a pixel to disappear, stressing on repeating the "s" key, etc.), I kind of understand the apprehension

2) Difference between winwait and winwaitactive is that the former waits till a window exists, and the latter waits till a window is active. (You can read that in the first sentences in the respective help files.) WinActive is a function that checks whether a window is active (and WinExists checks if a window exists). So you could say winwait is to winexists as winwaitactive is to winactive.

3) So where is that code repeating winwait?

4) Laziness leading to copypaste, I guess, but I'll leave that to jdelaney

Edited February 19, 2015 by SadBunny

[SorryButImaNewbie]

Hi

I would simply use send ("{s}")

(for the first question) and see how that works out

I personally had some problem with ControlSetText, more so then with Send. ControlSend is a third option and ControlCommand with "EditPaste" option is yet another.

I dont yet have the experience to say which is better and where, I would leave that to, well anyone else in this thread to tell  

I personaly usually just go through the possibilities, and while I work on it, it turns out which one is the most reliable in said envierment.

PS.: If he wants to automate a game or something, and he is doing it since 2013 october, I say help him with it, just because his willpower to stick with it should be rewarded

[AchterlijkeVleugel]

Answering in order:

1) Well, given your other questions on the forum (waiting for a pixel to disappear, stressing on repeating the "s" key, etc.), I kind of understand the apprehension

3) So where is that code repeating winwait?

 

Lol, if u look at it that way i understand it too. 

Well the code has 3 excuting lines right? all of them got the variable for winwait in them.

 

 

PS.: If he wants to automate a game or something, and he is doing it since 2013 october, I say help him with it, just because his willpower to stick with it should be rewarded

Lmfao

[SadBunny]

Well the code has 3 excuting lines right? all of them got the variable for winwait in them.

 

Ah, that's what you mean. No, that's not how it works. Referring to the variable does not re-execute the WinWait. The WinWait is executed 1 time and 1 time only, in that second line. The script halts there until the window in question exists, meaning potentially forever if the window never comes to life. The only other way that function can stop is if the timeout expires, but that's optional, so by default the function will sit there waiting forever until the window exists.

Now then, when the WinWait function is done, it returns a value (see the helpfile: in case of success, it's the handle to the window, the only other option is that the timeout expired and then it returns 0). That result value, returned from the function, is then stored in that variable. So when you refer to the variable, you're not re-executing the WinWait, you're merely looking up the result value ("remembered" in that variable) of that earlier execution.

Edited February 19, 2015 by SadBunny

[AchterlijkeVleugel]

Okay so i got these hotkeys atm

HotKeySet("z", "Main")
HotKeySet("PAUSE", "TogglePause")
HotKeySet("ESC", "Terminate")

But only z works, Main is the function for the script.

But only z works, Main is the function for the script.

Nothing happens when i press pause or esc

Edited February 19, 2015 by AchterlijkeVleugel

[bogQ]

its
HotKeySet("{ESC}", "Terminate")
if its not with {} =  youl need to press E on keyboard (3 button combination dont know it itl work)
for second question just add if your looking for a loop
 

While 1
Sleep(10)
Wend

as how to pause i'm pretty sure autoit help file have it nicely explained on HotKeySet example together with {} so open that help file

Edited February 19, 2015 by bogQ

[AchterlijkeVleugel]

It still doesnt work, does the position of the hotkeyset matter? Also i got the while loop in the function, is that bad?