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[Merlo]

I'm totally unexperienced with AutoIt3, but i heared its a great macro speech, so i'm asking for help here. I need a little macro pressing a key for 5 times and then finishing the macro.

Can someone help me in this ?

[Melba23]

Merlo,

First, welcome to the AutoIt forums.

As a complete beginner (and do not be concerned about that, we all were at some point! ) reading the Help file (at least the first few sections - Using AutoIt, Tutorials and the first couple of References) will help you enormously. You should also look at the excellent tutorials that you will find here and here - you will find other tutorials in the Wiki (the link is at the top of the page). There are even video tutorials on YouTube if you prefer watching to reading.

I know you want to start coding NOW, but a little study will save you a lot of trouble later on, believe me.

Once you have a handle on how AutoIt works, look carefully at For...Next and Send in the Help file - they will help you do what you want to do. Good luck.

M23

[Merlo]

Well i saw in the example in the script editor the for and next commands but no clue how to make a program with that.

all i understand is SEND like:

Send("Enter")

So this would press the enter key right ?

But the For-Next thing is quite complicated, english is not my main language. Example said:

;Using an Array

Dim $aArray[4]

$aArray[0]="a"

$aArray[1]=0

$aArray[2]=1.3434

$aArray[3]="test"

$string = ""

FOR $element IN $aArray

$string = $string & $element & @CRLF

NEXT

Msgbox(0,"For..IN Arraytest","Result is: " & @CRLF & $string)

;Using an Object Collection

$oShell = ObjCreate("shell.application")

$oShellWindows=$oShell.windows

if Isobj($oShellWindows) then

$string=""

for $Window in $oShellWindows

$String = $String & $window.LocationName & @CRLF

next

msgbox(0,"","You have the following windows open:" & @CRLF & $String)

else

msgbox(0,"","you have no open shell windows.")

endif

Forgive me, i got no clue what they want me to do.

[Melba23]

Merlo,

Send("Enter") [...] this would press the enter key right ?

No - read the Help file carefully. You need to put {} around named keys like that:

Send("{Enter}")

the For-Next thing is quite complicated

Wrong "For" - you need "For...To...Step...Next", not "For...In...Next". My apologies!

Here is an example of it working:

For $i = 1 To 5
    MsgBox(0, "Hi there", "This is MsgBox No. " & $i)
Next

Is that clearer?

And if you want to post code, please use code tags - put [autoit] before and [/autoit] after the code to get the nice boxes like those above.

M23

Edit: Double sig.

Edited July 4, 2011 by Melba23

[Merlo]

Thanks for correction, i would never had done this alone

Tried it out and it works great. Now all i miss is starting it with a hotkey and i found the hotkeykommand:

HotKeySet("{S}")

but it just ignores the hotkeyset, i want to make the macro start when i hit s

[Maffe811]

You dont need {} on HotKeySet

HotKeySet("S")

Also im not sure if a capital(big) s would end up in s and shift.

If in doubt, use lower case!

And then it needs to run a function:

HotKeySet("s","function")

Edited July 4, 2011 by Maffe811

[Merlo]

Ok will have to try that. The most important was the 1 to 5 -thing, i can start the macro from the editor also.

Many thanks all !