Question on pause function

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Hi all,
 
I'm relatively new to AutoIT so hi all!

I have a question on a pause function. Say I use the Pause function below, when I toggle the pause off will it resume from the previous function that it was running from? What I'm doing is calling a series of functions that will help me perform some other duties. When I pause the script it should make some hidden/invisible windows visible with the IE.au3 and the reverse when I resume it.

It could be something wrong with my code but when I toggle the pause function and resume it, the functions (IEFunction1 and IEFunction2) that were running seems to have reset or have just plain stopped. So does such a pause function really resume from where it was running?

The $IEWin and $Notepad are handles to an Internet Explorer and Notepad window respectively.

Thank you so much in advance!

While 1
   Local $IEFunctionSuccess=IEFunction1()
   If $IEFunctionSuccess="success" Then
      $IEFunction2()
   Else
      ContinueLoop
   EndIf
Wend

Func Pause()

   $Paused = NOT $Paused
   ToolTip("")
   If $Paused = 1 Then
      ToolTip('Script is "Paused"',500,500)

      If Not ($IEWin = "") Then _IEAction($IEWin,"visible")
      If Not ($NotePad = "") Then WinSetState($NotePad,@SW_SHOW)
      Sleep(3000)
      ToolTip("")
   EndIf

   If $Paused = 0 Then
      If Not ($IEWin = "") Then _IEAction($IEWin,"invisible")
      If Not ($NotePad = "") Then WinSetState($NotePad,@SW_HIDE)
      Sleep(2000)
      ToolTip("")
   EndIf

   While $Paused
      sleep(100)
   WEnd

EndFunc

[JohnOne]

Try using _IEPropertySet instead of _IEAction

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Oh is that a more robust way of making the windows visible/invisible? I seemed to have reliability issues on the visible/invisible not working. Ok will try that out! Thank you so much!

Edit: Hmm..which property should I use to make the entire IE window visible/invisible? I read the autoit help site but can't seem to work it out myself.

How about the part about it continuing the previous function?

Edited February 19, 2014 by blanked

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I've tried the script below and it seems that when I resume the script it didn't carry on from where it left off. Is there any workaround to it?
The pause function seems to be messing up my loops or something.

#Include <Constants.au3>

Global $Pause
HotKeySet("^!w","Pause")
HotKeySet("^!q","Terminate")

test1()

Func test1()

While 1
For $Run=1 to 10
     Tooltip($Run)
     Sleep(1000)
Next
WEnd

EndFunc

Func Pause()
$Pause = NOT $Pause
If $Pause = 1 Then
     While 1
         Sleep(100)
     WEnd
EndIf

If $Pause = 0 Then
     Msgbox(0,"","Continue")
EndIf
EndFunc


Func Terminate()
Exit 0
EndFunc

Edited February 19, 2014 by blanked