A truly noob question

[Daemeous]

Greetings, I am new to coding and have recently decided to try out AutoIt in my search to imbue my keyboard with the option for "tubo buttons". With what I've learned so far I've managed to write a program with a toggleable on and off button. I'll link the program here just in the offchance anyone is interested

HotKeySet("{PAUSE}", "PausePushed")
HotKeySet("{HOME}", "EndScript")

$Boolean1 = False

Func MainLoop()
While 1
While $Boolean1 = True
Send("{SPACE}")
Sleep(Int(Random(30, 36)))
Send("{8}")
Sleep(Int(Random(30, 36)))
Send("{7}")
Sleep(Int(Random(30, 36)))
WEnd
Sleep(100)
WEnd
EndFunc

; Function to toggle on and off
Func PausePushed()
    $Boolean1 = Not $Boolean1
    MainLoop()
EndFunc

MainLoop()

; Function to exit script
Func EndScript()
Exit
EndFunc

I was wondering if there was a way to detect is a button is pressed and a seperate way to detect when that button is realsed or a way to check if a button is held down. I was unable to locate any functions like this in the online documentation.

Thank you for your time reading this.

[JonathanR]

You can determine the state of a key (up or down) with a dll call to GetAsyncKeyState, or with the UDF _IsPressed.