Multiple user created hotkeys

[standardUser54]

I'm trying to make something that will accept 2 inputs from a user (hotkey, text). I've gotten everything to work except for the part of assigning the hotkeys and making all of them work simultaneously. Currently it accepts and creates the hotkeys, however will only use the values from the last saved input. I understand (at least I think) what is going wrong, I'm just unsure of how I can fix it. I'm self taught so apologies if I am just looking right over a simple solution

The issue as I see it, is my $hotkey and $text variables are simply holding the last value assigned to them. What I need it to do is send the text associated with the key pressed.  in this example pressing a, s, or d all result in msgbox with hello, rather then pressing a and returning fuu.

$hotkey = ""
;user input here, but initializing a few random .ini info
IniWrite("file.ini", "1", "Key", "a")
IniWrite("file.ini", "1", "text", "fuu")

IniWrite("file.ini", "2", "Key", "s")
IniWrite("file.ini", "2", "text", "bar")

IniWrite("file.ini", "3", "Key", "d")
IniWrite("file.ini", "3", "text", "hello")


global $aSecNames = IniReadSectionNames("file.ini")

For $i = 1 to $aSecNames[0]
    $hotkey = IniRead("file.ini", $aSecNames[$i], "Key", "")
    HotKeySet($hotkey, "_test")
    Global $text = IniRead("file.ini", $aSecNames[$i], "text", "")
Next

While 1

WEnd

Func _test()
    ;send($text)
    MsgBox(0, "",$text)
EndFunc

Thanks for any assistance

[Dan_555]

See the Autoit Help for HotKeySet, the  "Example 2, @HotKeyPressed usage"

Quote

 $text variables are simply holding the last value assigned to them.

Yes, a variable which is assigned in a loop, gets overwritten by each loop. You can use an array or  the above suggestion instead.

Edited February 2, 2021 by Dan_555

[standardUser54]

That was it, thank you Dan. Quite a simple solution after all this time ahah. Here is my hackjob solution for any who might stumble across this.

$hotkey = ""
;user input here, but initializing random .ini info
IniWrite("file.ini", "1", "Key", "a")
IniWrite("file.ini", "1", "text", "fuu")

IniWrite("file.ini", "2", "Key", "s")
IniWrite("file.ini", "2", "text", "bar")

IniWrite("file.ini", "3", "Key", "d")
IniWrite("file.ini", "3", "text", "hello")

global $aSecNames = IniReadSectionNames("file.ini")

For $i = 1 to $aSecNames[0]
    $hotkey = IniRead("file.ini", $aSecNames[$i], "Key", "")
    HotKeySet($hotkey, "_test")
Next

While 1

WEnd

Func _test()
    ;loop through all sections while and compare key value to the @hotkeypressed value
    For $i = 1 to $aSecNames[0]
        if IniRead("file.ini", $aSecNames[$i], "Key", "") = @HotKeyPressed Then
            $text = IniRead("file.ini", $aSecNames[$i], "text", "")
        EndIf
    Next
    MsgBox(0, "",$text)
EndFunc

 

[JockoDundee]

Unless you’re deflecting bullets in real-time, you might want to put a sleep(10) (or longer) in your loop

While 1
   Sleep(10)
WEnd

Your CPU will thank you...

Edited February 2, 2021 by JockoDundee

[Nine]

Since all hotkeys must be unique, you could streamline your ini file and (likewise) your code this way :

#include <Constants.au3>
#include <Array.au3>

;user input here, but initializing random .ini info
IniWrite("file.ini", "HotKeys", "a", "fuu")
IniWrite("file.ini", "HotKeys", "s", "bar")
IniWrite("file.ini", "HotKeys", "d", "hello")

Global $aHotKeys = IniReadSection("file.ini", "HotKeys")

For $i = 1 to $aHotKeys[0][0]
  HotKeySet($aHotKeys[$i][0], _Test)
Next

While Sleep (100)
WEnd

Func _Test()
  Local $iInd = _ArraySearch($aHotKeys, @HotKeyPressed, 1, Default, 1, 2, Default, 0)
  If @error Then Exit MsgBox ($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "", "Error on hotkey search")
  ConsoleWrite ($aHotKeys[$iInd][1] & @CRLF)
EndFunc