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"Another alternative would be to disable or change, if possible, the hotkeys that Win 7 uses." Does anyone know if that is possible, and if so, how its done? Thanks for any ideas or advice, Guy.

Thanks very much for the replies, I really appreciate it! Yes I am using windows 7, so it appears that may be the problem. I will try to check out this _Ispressed thing you mention. I am not totally sure how that is supposed to work, would it take control of this key back from Windows 7 so I can use it? Anyway, thanks for all the ideas, Guy.

Thanks for your reply. I did check the helpfile, and I saw the part I think you are referring to. However for some reason it works fine with Alt and Ctrl. I have not actually tried Shift. If anyone does know a way to use the WIN key in a hotkey combination, such as that described in my original post, your assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance to any who can offer suggestions, Guy.

I am trying to use the WIN key as part of a hotkey combination with the RIGHT, LEFT, UP, DOWN arrow keys. It works fine if I use the Ctrl (^) key, or the Alt key, but for some reason the WIN (#)? key won't work in the same way. I have tried various combinations such as: HotKeySet("#{RIGHT}", "RUN_FUNC") HotKeySet("#+{RIGHT}", "RUN_FUNC") HotKeySet("{LWIN}+{RIGHT}", "RUN_FUNC") HotKeySet("{LWIN}{RIGHT}", "RUN_FUNC") None of those seem to work, however using, HotKeySet("^{RIGHT}", "RUN_FUNC") -works fine for Ctrl + RIGHT arrow HotKeySet("!{RIGHT}", "RUN_FUNC") -works fine for Alt + RIGHT arrow I did a quick search in the forums, but did not find what I was looking for. Any help is really appreciated. Guy.

Thank you for your reply, I did check the help file, but I must have missed it! Thanks again for the help. Guy.

Does anyone know of an easy way to count the number of lines in a text file using AutoIT? Thanks to anyone who can offer advice. Guy.

Thanks for the replies, I will take another look at Obsidium. I realize that any form of copy protection can be circumvented by determined individuals, I just want something simple that will prevent the average person from using for free indefinitely. Guy.

Thanks for the reply Vlad, I will try to be sure not to start duplicate threads in the future. I tried one program called ShareGuard, but it seems to require the user to download and run a separate program to get the product ID and register. I looked into a program called Obsidium, I emailed the company but did not get a reply. That was many days ago, so that is not a very good sign. I tried something called EXE shield, which looked promising, but when I tried to use it with a compiled AutoIt script it would not work and gave a message saying that "AV researchers should contact some email address" I emailed the company and am still waiting for a reply to see if this program can work with AutoIt. I think it cost about $90, which is still kind of expensive for me, but it looked quite good and I would probably buy it, if it worked with AutoIt. I tried something called Armadillo, but it did not seem to have the ability of offer a free trial. I also checked out web sites of many other products that were in the $300-$1000 price range. These had way more features than I would ever use, and seem to be aimed at professional developers or whatever. In any case I cannot spend that much right now. I was really hoping that someone else may have already found a product that works well with AutoIt and allows you to offer a free trial, then issue an activation key to keep the product working after the trial expires. Thanks to anyone who can offer advice in this area. Guy.

Thanks P5ych0Gigabyte!

I am trying to use variables with HotKeySet. Say the code looks like this: $hotkey1 = ^ $hotkey2 = {PGDN} HotKeySet($hotkey1$hotkey2, "FUNCTIONNAME") When I try to run this I get an "error in expression" message for the HotKeySet line. It works if I use just one variable, but when I combine the two variables I get the error. I looked in the help file and searched "combining variables" in the forum, but did not find the answer. Thanks very much to anyone who can offer suggestions/advice. Guy.

I was recently trying to do something similar, and encountered the same type of issue. Here is a solution that another user was kind enough to post for me. #include <GUIConstantsEx.au3> Opt("GUIOnEventMode", 1) $Form1_1 = GUICreate("My Form", 343, 195, 192, 124) GUISetOnEvent($GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, "CLOSEClk") $Label1 = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Ready to Loop", 64, 16, 198, 20) GUICtrlSetFont(-1, 10, 400, 0, "Goudy Old Style") GUICtrlSetColor(-1, 0x808000) $Button1 = GUICtrlCreateButton( "Button1", 216, 104, 75, 25) $Button2 = GUICtrlCreateButton( "Button2", 216, 144, 75, 25) GUICtrlSetOnEvent($Button1,"Button1") GUICtrlSetOnEvent($button2,"Button2") GUICtrlSetState($button2, $GUI_DISABLE) GUISetState(@SW_SHOW) $button1Loop = False While 1 sleep(100) if $button1Loop Then Button1Loop() EndIf WEnd Func Button1() GUICtrlSetState($button2, $GUI_ENABLE) GUICtrlSetState($button1, $GUI_DISABLE) $button1Loop = True EndFunc Func Button1Loop() GUICtrlSetData($label1, "Looping: " &TimerInit()) EndFunc Func Button2() $button1Loop = False GUICtrlSetState($button1, $GUI_ENABLE) GUICtrlSetState($button2, $GUI_DISABLE) GUICtrlSetData($label1, "All Done") EndFunc Func CLOSEClk() Exit EndFunc Basically you have the function button1loop that starts when button1 is pressed. Pressing button2 will exit the loop. I found it worked for me, hopefully you will also find it useful. Guy.

Please excuse me if I have been asking a lot of questions lately. I am new to this and trying to get a few projects working. I would just like to let it be known that I really appreciate any help/suggestions/guidance that people have provided here. I hope that if I ever get good enough with using AutoIt that I can some day help other new users with their newbie questions. I will try my best to find the answers I am looking for on my own. In this case I was just hoping someone who had experience in this area could say "program XYZ worked well for me" or "program ABC did not". I spent the past day and a half downloading and trying several copy protection programs, including some of those mentioned before, but did not find one with the features I want, that really seemed to work well with a compiled AutoIt script. Anyways sorry if you found my questions annoying, and thanks again to everyone who gave me help and suggestions, I really do appreciate it. Guy.

I am looking for an easy to use solution that will allow me to license my compiled AutoIt scripts by issuing a license key, after a trial period has expired. I tried a few programs I found on Google, but either they did not seem to work with compiled AutoIt programs, or were very expensive. Has anyone found a program that will allow me to easily license AutoIt compiled scripts? Thanks in advance for any suggestions, Guy.

How can I have one .au3 script run another .au3 script? I tried RUN and SHELLEXECUTE without success. Also what if I want to have a .au3 script launch a perl script with the .pl file extension, would this be possible? Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me, Guy.

When trying to match the title and text of a window, is it possible to use hidden text in the window to perform the match? If so do I need to specify that the text is hidden in some way, or will the default text matching also recognize hidden text. Thanks for any assistance, Guy.