Help with a simple autoclicker

[csergiu]

Hey, I'm new to AutoIt (so I'm kind of a n00b ) and I'm trying to make an autoclicker. I need it to left click once every 9 minutes, I have done this by now but I can't figure out why it doesn't work.

MsgBox(0, "information here...")
 
HotKeySet("{F9}", "startclick")
HotkeySet("{F11}", "HK_STOP")
 
; functia click
Func startclick()
; infinite loop for left click
while(1)
Sleep(20)
MouseClick("left")
WEnd
EndFunc
 
; stop click
Func HK_STOP()
while 1 = 1
  Sleep(50)
wend
EndFunc
 
; keep the program running
while(1)
sleep(50)
WEnd

That is working, it continuously clicks but with some pauses (I don't know why) and if I set Sleep(20) to Sleep(540000) it doesn't work. It just clicks once and then after I wait 540000 ms it doesn't click again. Or if I put Sleep(2000) or Sleep(5000) it clicks but with longer breaks (what I mean is: clicks a couple of times every 2 or 5 seconds and then it stops for a while and starts again).

I don't know if you can understand what I'm saying, but I need this for a project for school... please help!

Edited October 31, 2011 by csergiu

[nitekram]

You need some type of if statement and compare _Timer_Init() and _Timer_Diff()

[kylomas]

csergui,

For starters, your call to msgbox is wrong. How are you getting this to run?

Secondly, you may want to consider using "adlib" type processing (see help file) for your functions. Also, guiacellerators limit key scope to your script (with hotkey's the scope is global). Again, see help file.

Good Luck!!

kylomas

[pacman1176]

I'm not sure why your code doesn't function properly (aside from the above comment), but this is another way to achieve the same goal using some different concepts. I didn't run this, but you get the idea. This code will run indefinitely. When a user presses F9, it will click once and pause for 9 minutes. How it's written, if they press F11 then F9 again while in the 9 minute wait, it will not respond to anything until the wait is up.

If you want it to be able to stop its wait and restart, consider using a for loop that sleeps for the same amount of time, each iteration should check if your shared $click is changing.

MsgBox(0, "", "information here...")
;shared variable
Global $click = false
HotKeySet("{F9}", "startclick")
HotkeySet("{F11}", "HK_STOP")
 
; functia click
Func startclick()
$click = true
EndFunc
 
; stop click
Func HK_STOP()
$click = false
EndFunc
 
; keep the program running
while(1)
sleep(50)
    While ($click=true)
        mouseclick("left")
        sleep(9*60*1000)
    WEnd
WEnd

Edited October 31, 2011 by pacman1176