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Hello, I have been playing around with AutoIT for a few hours now trying to make a simple program with start/stop button that will loop the code. I also want to add two input boxes for it -- one for which key would be pressed and the other one for the delay.

Key1 = key to be pressed

Delay1 = delay before it is pressed again

So when the user would press start the program would start looping the code that would be in the while field, but when the Delay1 time would be greater than the one the user wrote in the Delay1 field, a specific IF statement would be launched that would press Key1 and reset the Delay1 timer back to 0. When the Delay1 timer would be greater than Delay1 again, the IF statement would be launched again. All of this would loop until the person presses the Stop button or exits it.

I hope someone could write me an example of this so I can continue to build/learn on it. I hope all of this made sense.

Thanks in advance and sorry for my English.

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Yes all this can be done, i suggest that you can use the only one loop to do this and do some filter with "If" statements, like you said, but first i suggest that start writing the code for the controls and do the main loop to keep the window open and check when to exit.

What is your experience in drawing controls into a GUI?

EDITED: I almos forgot it... Welcome to the forum. :)

Edited by monoscout999
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Welcome!

So you want:

Key press

Wait for delay to be reached

Reset and repeat ?

If yes, then look at send, sleep and maybe while loops.

But as Monoscout sais, drawing the gui is the key element so you should start there!

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I looked at _Timer_Init and _Timer_Diff and imo it is a bit confusing for a beguinner.

So i would suggest Sleep($Delay)

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Doesn't sleep pause the whole program?

Isnt that what you want ? Edited by Maffe811

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I think he wants:

While 1
Send("a")
Sleep(1000)
Wend

But he wants the letter and time to be set in a gui before code execution.

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Like this ?

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>


GUICreate("",200,100)
$ButtonOk = GUICtrlCreateButton("OK",70,65,60, 30)
$KeyInput = GUICtrlCreateInput("Key",10,10,180,20)
$DelayInput = GUICtrlCreateInput("Delay in seconds",10,40,180,20)

GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

While 1
    $Msg = GUIGetMsg()
Select
    Case $Msg = $ButtonOk
        $Key = GUICtrlRead($KeyInput)
        $Delay = GUICtrlRead($DelayInput)
        If $Delay <> "Delay in seconds" and $Key <> "Key" then
        $Delay = $Delay * 1000
        MsgBox("","",$Key & " " & $Delay)
        KeyPresser()
        EndIf
    Case $Msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
        Exit
EndSelect

Sleep(40)
Wend

Func KeyPresser()
    While 1
        Send($Key)
        Sleep($Delay)
    WEnd
EndFunc

Edit:

Oh buger... I didnt read the loop code part -.-

Ignore the code above...

Edited by Maffe811

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#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>


GUICreate("",200,100)
$ButtonOk = GUICtrlCreateButton("OK",70,65,60, 30)
$KeyInput = GUICtrlCreateInput("Key",10,10,180,20)
$DelayInput = GUICtrlCreateInput("Delay in seconds",10,40,180,20)

GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

While 1
    $Msg = GUIGetMsg()
Select
    Case $Msg = $ButtonOk
        $Key = GUICtrlRead($KeyInput)
        $Delay = GUICtrlRead($DelayInput)
        If $Delay <> "Delay in seconds" and $Key <> "Key" then
        $Delay = $Delay * 1000
        MsgBox("","",$Key & " " & $Delay)
        KeyPresser()
        EndIf
    Case $Msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
        Exit
EndSelect

Sleep(40)
Wend

Func KeyPresser()
    While 1
        Send($Key)
        Sleep($Delay)
    WEnd
EndFunc

Edit:

Oh buger... I didnt read the loop code part -.-

Ignore the code above...

Yes something like that only that there would be a While loop when the OK button is pressed and inside that While there would be IF statement for when the timer would be > $Delay.

While 1
    $msg = GUIGetMsg()
    
    Select
        
        Case $msg = $startbutton
                
                $send1 = GUICtrlRead($key)
                $sleep1 = GUICtrlRead($input)
                
            While 1 
                Send("{1}")
                Sleep(1000)
                
            ??????  If ??????? > ????? Then ??????
                    Send($send1)
                EndIf
            WEnd
            
    EndSelect
        
WEnd

I want to know how to make a timer at the ????? part of the code so that it would execute it only once when the timer is greater than $sleep1 and then continue to loop While.

Edited by repruw
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I did try adding that but it doesn't work for some reason. I don't know how to make it so it resets the time to 0 after it executes the IF function but still use the inputted time for the next time it goes over the inputted number.

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Here is a quick example of using timers, try to incorporate it into your script. If you get stuck, post your attempt.

$iTimeInSeconds = 5
$iTimeStamp = TimerInit()
While 1
    If TimerDiff($iTimeStamp) > $iTimeInSeconds * 1000 Then
        MsgBox(64, @ScriptName, "This message box will show every " & $iTimeInSeconds & " seconds.")
        $iTimeStamp = TimerInit()
    EndIf
WEnd

:mellow:

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To reset time just set the timer variable to TimerInit() again, post the full code you attempted using timers.

GUICreate("test", 300, 100)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

$key = GUICtrlCreateInput("", 50, 15, 100)
$input = GUICtrlCreateInput("", 50, 40, 100)
$startbutton = GUICtrlCreateButton("start", 150, 15, 100)

While 1
    $msg = GUIGetMsg()
    
    Select
        
        Case $msg = $startbutton
                
                $send1 = GUICtrlRead($key)
                $sleep1 = GUICtrlRead($input) * 1000
                
            While 1 
                Send("{1}")
                Sleep(1000)
                
                If TimerDiff($sleep1) > $sleep1 Then
                    Send($send1)
                    $sleep1 = TimerInit()
                EndIf
            WEnd
        
    EndSelect
        
WEnd
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i see two problems without run your scirpt

1 - You have to do the TimerDiff() before using TimerInit()

I think that the place to put TimerInit() must be before the second loop starts.

2 - you are overwriting $sleep1

TimerInit return a timestamp into the variable $sleep1 and $sleep1 have the value to check, so use another variable fot the timers.

EDITED: some spelled corrections

Edited by monoscout999
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i see two problems without run your scirpt

1 - You have to do the TimerInit() before using TimerDiff()

I think that the place to put TimerInit() must be before the second loop starts.

2 - you are overwriting $sleep1

TimerInit return a timestamp into the variable $sleep1 and $sleep1 have the value to check, so use another variable fot the timers.

Got it to work. Thanks to everyone.

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