spuuunit Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 A script that is always running, and looking like this: While 1 If WinActive("[CLASS:MediaPlayerClassicW]") Then EndIf Sleep(1) WEnd Is this heavy for a PC? Or is it something you would not recommend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
water Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 Sleep(1) is a bit short because the number is n/1000 seconds. If you use 500 the script will check 2 times a second for the window. Uses less CPU. My UDFs and Tutorials: Spoiler UDFs:Active Directory (NEW 2022-02-19 - Version 1.6.1.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiExcelChart (2017-07-21 - Version 0.4.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Example ScriptsOutlookEX (2021-11-16 - Version 1.7.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiOutlookEX_GUI (2021-04-13 - Version 1.4.0.0) - DownloadOutlook Tools (2019-07-22 - Version 0.6.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - WikiPowerPoint (2021-08-31 - Version 1.5.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiTask Scheduler (NEW 2022-07-28 - Version 1.6.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Wiki Standard UDFs:Excel - Example Scripts - WikiWord - Wiki Tutorials:ADO - WikiWebDriver - Wiki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spuuunit Posted November 12, 2013 Author Share Posted November 12, 2013 Hmmm, 50 is the most I can use there. The thing is that I check whenever I Num2 is down. This is my full script if it helps: expandcollapse popup#include <Misc.au3> $hDLL = DllOpen("user32.dll") $count = 0 $hold_time = 50 While 1 If WinActive("[CLASS:MediaPlayerClassicW]") Then If _IsPressed("62", $hDLL) Then Send ("{SPACE}") While _IsPressed("62", $hDLL) And $count < $hold_time $count = $count + 1 Sleep (1) WEnd If $count = $hold_time Then While _IsPressed("62", $hDLL) Send ("{SPACE}") Sleep (19) WEnd EndIf $count = 0 EndIf If _IsPressed("65", $hDLL) Then Send ("{SPACE}") Sleep (20) Send ("{SPACE}") Sleep (200) EndIf EndIf Sleep(50) WEnd DllClose($hDLL) Num2 shall work as a Pause / Play, and Num5 shall work as a Play some milliseconds then pause again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spuuunit Posted November 12, 2013 Author Share Posted November 12, 2013 So how bad would this be? Would it be like running utorrent for example? Or like watching a film? Or drain even more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrewManNH Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 I wouldn't use the While loop with the _IsPressed the way you're doing. As long as you have the Numpad2 held down it's sending a space to the active window every 10ms, for 50 repetitions. Hopefully not what you're looking to do. Also, 10 is the lowest sleep time you can use, anything less than 10 will sleep the script for 10ms regardless of the value in the sleep function. If I posted any code, assume that code was written using the latest release version unless stated otherwise. Also, if it doesn't work on XP I can't help with that because I don't have access to XP, and I'm not going to.Give a programmer the correct code and he can do his work for a day. Teach a programmer to debug and he can do his work for a lifetime - by Chirag GudeHow to ask questions the smart way! I hereby grant any person the right to use any code I post, that I am the original author of, on the autoitscript.com forums, unless I've specifically stated otherwise in the code or the thread post. If you do use my code all I ask, as a courtesy, is to make note of where you got it from. Back up and restore Windows user files _Array.au3 - Modified array functions that include support for 2D arrays. - ColorChooser - An add-on for SciTE that pops up a color dialog so you can select and paste a color code into a script. - Customizable Splashscreen GUI w/Progress Bar - Create a custom "splash screen" GUI with a progress bar and custom label. - _FileGetProperty - Retrieve the properties of a file - SciTE Toolbar - A toolbar demo for use with the SciTE editor - GUIRegisterMsg demo - Demo script to show how to use the Windows messages to interact with controls and your GUI. - Latin Square password generator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spuuunit Posted November 13, 2013 Author Share Posted November 13, 2013 I wouldn't use the While loop with the _IsPressed the way you're doing. As long as you have the Numpad2 held down it's sending a space to the active window every 10ms, for 50 repetitions. Hopefully not what you're looking to do. Also, 10 is the lowest sleep time you can use, anything less than 10 will sleep the script for 10ms regardless of the value in the sleep function. Actually, if I hold down Num2 it goes like this (I tried it out): At first Space is triggered, then it waits a bit, then a while later Space is triggered repeatedly very fast until I let go of Num2. This is actually what I want to do with it, so I'm not having any trouble with it. But I'm still wondering about how much load this is for the PC. While 1 If WinActive("[CLASS:MediaPlayerClassicW]") Then EndIf Sleep(50) WEnd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrewManNH Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 (edited) Open up the task manager and look at the CPU load while doing it. Although I have to wonder why you need to spam the space bar like that for the "media player". Edited November 13, 2013 by BrewManNH If I posted any code, assume that code was written using the latest release version unless stated otherwise. Also, if it doesn't work on XP I can't help with that because I don't have access to XP, and I'm not going to.Give a programmer the correct code and he can do his work for a day. Teach a programmer to debug and he can do his work for a lifetime - by Chirag GudeHow to ask questions the smart way! I hereby grant any person the right to use any code I post, that I am the original author of, on the autoitscript.com forums, unless I've specifically stated otherwise in the code or the thread post. If you do use my code all I ask, as a courtesy, is to make note of where you got it from. Back up and restore Windows user files _Array.au3 - Modified array functions that include support for 2D arrays. - ColorChooser - An add-on for SciTE that pops up a color dialog so you can select and paste a color code into a script. - Customizable Splashscreen GUI w/Progress Bar - Create a custom "splash screen" GUI with a progress bar and custom label. - _FileGetProperty - Retrieve the properties of a file - SciTE Toolbar - A toolbar demo for use with the SciTE editor - GUIRegisterMsg demo - Demo script to show how to use the Windows messages to interact with controls and your GUI. - Latin Square password generator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spuuunit Posted November 13, 2013 Author Share Posted November 13, 2013 Open up the task manager and look at the CPU load while doing it. Although I have to wonder why you need to spam the space bar like that for the "media player". Kind of hard to explain, but I'm making key commands for syncing subtitle files. The goal is to use Num2 and Num5 to find out exactly when a line is spoken in a film. I'm very picky, so this helps out a lot in that process, to get an accurate time. But about the CPU - I checked and it says 0%, but almost every process running says 0%, so I guess it's not that much... But it would be interesting to compare with some other program though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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