Timing of keypresses

[arkane]

Hi mates !

First, sorry for my bad english...

Okay, my bot is now over and working fine on my computer. But I noticed it wasn't reacting the same way depending of what computer runs it.

Keypresses doesn't always last the same time.

Here is one exemple :

I've a Function like this :

Func _sleep($sleeptime)
    $timer = TimerInit()
    while TimerDiff($timer) < $sleeptime
        sleep(10)
    wend
    Return 0
EndFunc

And I do for exemple :

Func ChercherBalle()
    Send("{s down}{q down}")
    if _Sleep(3000) = 1 then Return
    Send("{s up}{q up}")
    if _Sleep(30) = 1 then Return
        
    Send("{z down}{d down}")
    if _Sleep(1950) = 1 then Return
    Send("{z up}{d up}")
    if _Sleep(30) = 1 then Return
        
    Send("{z down}")
    if _Sleep(30) = 1 then Return
    Send("{z up}")
    if _Sleep(30) = 1 then Return
    Send("{z down}")
    if _Sleep(7700) = 1 then Return
    Send("{z up}")
EndFunc

Which works great, I mean, this is the perfect timing for my computer, but not for every computers. Do you have any idea about how I can make it a lot more accurate, so it'll work the same for everybody ?

Thanks in advance for your advices !

Someone said me :

You should base the movement of the character on the time elapsed, not the other way around (we did this in the 1980s and it sucked ).

Isn't it what I'm doing ? Edited January 9, 2010 by arkane

[gte]

Can you use do until's and have certain windows (or other items) end the until portion? I don't know what your bot does, but this is what I do with some of my scripts when processor speed seems to vary the timing of things

[arkane]

My bot mostly do key presses, to move from an A point to a Z point.

I can try to use do/until and use pixel detection, but it will be very hard. But I have a few ideas.

Thanks for your advice. I hope there is an another solution ?

[gte]

I use do/until for window detection and it works perfect. I use the consolewrite() command inside of the do/until function for testing as well, it helps you see exactly when the program recognizes something, because it stops writing to the console at that moment

My bot mostly do key presses, to move from an A point to a Z point.

I can try to use do/until and use pixel detection, but it will be very hard. But I have a few ideas.

Thanks for your advice. I hope there is an another solution ?

[arkane]

Thanks for your interest.

So you think I should only use pixel detection ?

The fact is, I don't understand when you say "Windows detection".

[Xand3r]

try

Opt("SendKeyDelay" , 0)
Opt("SendKeyDownDelay" , 0)

Func _sleep($sleeptime)
 $timer = TimerInit()
 while TimerDiff($timer) < $sleeptime
 sleep(0)
 wend
 Return 0
EndFunc

that way you eliminate the things that might be slower on some pc's (sleep is not very accurate)

and with the Opt keys are sent instantaneously

[arkane]

Okay, but is sleep(0) useful ?

[arkane]

The behaviour is a lot better like this.

there is still a small difference, but it's already very good. Thanks.