need help with keystroke script

[esi]

Dear community,

can you provide a newbee(me ) with a simple script which detects the hotkey : SPACE as input and sends CTRL+SPACE as output.

The script should run forever until manually terminated.

Rgds, Eirikur.

[somdcomputerguy]

This would be quite a simple script to create. Here are the functions needed. Read thru them and write out some code. If you have problems, post back here your code and any questions and you'll get some help I'm sure.

HotKeySet

Send

[Pruttelpot]

Guess it should be something like:

HotKeySet("{Space}", "captureSpace")

Func captureSpace()

Send("{CTRL]+{SPACE}")

EndFunc

[PsaltyDS]

The Ctrl+{Space} key stroke is: "^{SPACE}"

What you posted (with the square bracket corrected to a curly brace) would send CTRL, then send "+", then send "{SPACE}".

[esi]

How can i have the script run forever until manually terminated ?

The script provided exits immediately.

Rgds, Eirikur.

[somdcomputerguy]

While 1
  ;your script
WEnd

[esi]

Thanks for all the pointers.

The final script looks like this :

HotKeySet("{Space}", "captureSpace")

While 1

WEnd

Func captureSpace()

Send("^{SPACE}")

EndFunc

(If I place the script between while and wend I get syntax error)

A script to replace "x" with "y" which can be tested in a notepad document is as follows:

HotKeySet("x", "capturetest")

While 1

WEnd

Func capturetest()

Send("y")

EndFunc

Hopefully this sample can help someone else.

Rgds, Eirikur.

[PsaltyDS]

Note what happens to your CPU usage (from Task Manager, Performance tab) while running that. You might want to put Sleep(10) inside that While/WEnd loop.

I would also give yourself a way to kill it, like a HotKeySet() for "{ESC}" that just exits the script.