Hotkeyset

[grakker]

This is so basic that I'm a little embarrassed putting it up here, but I can't figure it out so, here is my situation:

In my job I have to run a variable number of reports every morning from a crappy application my company uses. The app has some primitive scripting abilities, but it is unable to print out hardcopy from the script. So I figure out how many of my different reports I need to run, run it as a script, come back to my computer about 10 minutes later and I have layers of reports that I need to print out. For each screen I need to type

1. CNTRL-P

2. {ENTER} // for the confirm print window

3. wait for the printing status window to close

4. {ESC} // to exit from the report window

5. N // No, I don't want to save the report

Then I'm back to a new report with basically the same title and slightly different information. The whole loop takes about 2 seconds, but every day it's getting a little more annoying. So I found autoit and thought this would do the trick. Here is the basic script I wrote:

HotKeySet ("^L", "mPrint")

Func mPrint ()

SEND("^p{ENTER}")

SLEEP(500)

WinWaitActive("Printing")

WInWaitClose("Printing")

SEND("{ESC}N")

EndFunc

I just want to get it to run once, then I can through it in a little loop with a window asking how many times to run through it. Anyone point me to where I'm really missing the boat? Thanks

[scriptkitty]

You just never call out the function before it ends. Try this

HotKeySet ("^L", "mPrint")
while 1 
; this is an endless loop, hotkey functions work fine as long as AutoIt is running
; so this will keep it running, press your hotkey to activate.
sleep(10)
wend

Func mPrint ()
SEND("^p{ENTER}")
SLEEP(500)
WinWaitActive("Printing")
WInWaitClose("Printing")
SEND("{ESC}N")
EndFunc

good luck on your scripting adventures....

Edited March 17, 2004 by scriptkitty

[grakker]

Ahhh... OK, I think that I just saw the light. I'm too used to writing up little bash or php things. I saw variations of that and just figured that it was wrong, because a infinite loop would never exit to allow the function to get called, and the function isn't called in the loop, so.....

That's where I was stuck. Anyways, thanks for the help, it works perfectly and I'm on my way.