Creating hotkey that launches a program and performs a loop and closes it if used again

[FireChrome]

Hey all! This is probably the most simple request in the forum that will make most of the experienced users go "DUH!"

Being a total noobie I'm still trying to figure things out. Basically wanted to create a hotkey that will launch a program, then run an infinite loop within the program until the hotkey is pressed again.

So far I've made this...and while it launches notepad, it won't enter the A, B, C text. Any tips?

Run("notepad.exe")
WinWaitActive("[CLASS:Notepad]")


Dim $Hotkey

HotKeySet("{F9}","Start")

Func Start()
$Hotkey = NOT $Hotkey
If $Hotkey Then ToolTip('Hotkey was pressed',0,0)
While $Hotkey
Send("{A}")
Send("{B}")
Send("{C}")
WEnd
ToolTip("")
EndFunc

[bogQ]

you need some empty loop to keep the script alive or the script will exit as soon as its done waiting for window

so below HotKeySet add another empty while 1 loop to keep it alive

and instead Send("{A}") you can use Send("A") or Send("ABC")

Edited December 17, 2012 by bogQ

[FireChrome]

Thanks! the program launches and the text repeats...but pressing the hotkey again doesn't stop the loop, I think I'm missing a condition to exitloop?

Edited December 17, 2012 by FireChrome

[bogQ]

some ideas about your code can be

declare some var on top of the script to be 0

on every hotkey press set it to change betwean switch var case 0 var = 1 and case 1 var = 0 and add code according to it

and you can do empty loop as func and afer var is set return it to the empty loop

Edited December 18, 2012 by bogQ