why won't my hotkeyset work?

[Sethnel99]

I'm trying to write a very simple program and it just won't work! I just upgraded my laptop to Windows 7 and reinstalled autoit. My program simply runs a loop until a button is pressed. The hotkeyset function is not being called when i hit the button. It doesn't matter what button i choose or what the function does or is called, it never does anything.

My program currently looks like this:

dim $x = true;

Func hi2u()

$x = false;

endFunc

HotKeySet("{Esc}", "hi2u");

while($x = true);

send("{RIGHT}");

send("{RIGHT}");

send("{LEFT}");

send("{LEFT}");

send("z");

sleep(100);

send("z");

sleep(1000);

send("z");

sleep(1000);

send("z");

sleep(1000)

EndIf

WEnd

Can anyone tell me what i'm doing wrong? I've viewed the documentation of hotkeyset and even tried copying in some code from examples. None of them work!

[Fulano]

Please wrap that in code tags, it'll make life that much easier for everyone.

Also: It looks like your flag variable is local, and so cannot be accessed by your function. Try changing it to 'Global $x'.

<rant>On a separate note, debugging will be easier if you use meaningful variable names.</rant>

[sniper120]

@ Above

<rant>On a separate note, debugging will be easier if you use meaningful variable names.</rant>

Yes! Another person who believes in giving meaningful names to variables! =)

@Question

Read the comments in your code below, I'm not going to write it for you. Judging from your code, your not very experienced...

(*whisper* Yes I tabbed and cleaned the code a bit so I could read it... *whisper*)

dim $x = true;

Func hi2u()
    $x = false;
endFunc

HotKeySet("{Esc}", "hi2u");

while($x = true); Wow! Your a C/ C++ nub! You don't need the ";" at the end of lines! It denote comments -.- ...
    send("{RIGHT}");
    send("{RIGHT}");
    send("{LEFT}");
    send("{LEFT}");
    send("z");
    sleep(100);
    send("z");
    sleep(1000);
    send("z");
    sleep(1000);
    send("z");
    sleep(1000)
EndIf ; <-- Wth? What's this? Remove it...

WEnd

Edited March 4, 2010 by sniper120

[Fulano]

Yes! Another person who believes in giving meaningful names to variables! =)

Thanks

My 'side project' at work just hit 3 files and 1,444 lines. If I'd been lazy at the start I'd be hosed