User Interaction While Performing Operations Possible?

[CheshireSoft]

Hi. I have been struggling with this issue for a long time now. I am unable to get my autoit programs to properly respond to user input while my program is performing any sort of operations. For instance, initial/main program loop checks for button presses successfully but after I enter any other loop this does not work properly even if I add $nMsg = GUIGetMsg() and corresponding conditional statements within the nested loops. When I add this sort of code to the nested loops what winds up happening if lets say someone tries to exit the program is that it wont exit until several iterations of the loop later. I don't understand this. How is this done properly?

[somdcomputerguy]

This function, HotKeySet, may help..

[CheshireSoft]

This function, HotKeySet, may help..

this isnt what im looking for. buttons need to work when user clicks them even if loops are iterating.

[Tvern]

A few suggestions:

- Use Opt("GUIOnEventMode", 1) instead of messageloop.

- Use smaller functions that return to the main loop more regularly

- Put your GUIGetMsg() in a function which you call in the main loop, but also regularly in your functions. ;I wouldn't reccomend this as it's not commonly done this way. There's progably a reason for that.

- Post your script here so you'll get more response

edit: The suggestions are different ways to fix your problem, they're not meant to all be implemented, but rather you pick the one that best fits your needs and discard the others.

Edited May 19, 2010 by Tvern

[GEOSoft]

A few suggestions:

- Put your GUIGetMsg() in a function which you call in the main loop, but also regularly in your functions. ;I wouldn't reccomend this as it's not commonly done this way. There's progably a reason for that.

There is a good reason for that.

If the GUIOnEventMode option is set to 1 then the return from GUIGetMsg is always 0 and the @error is set to 1.