SendKeyDelay interaction with AHK script?

[iCode]

A person using my script is running some AHK scripts that apparently use AHK's Send function to send a string of keys to an edit control (non-AHK i believe)

My script does not set the SendKey[Down]Delay times, so they should default to 5 ms

He is setting SendKeyDelay = 0 in his scripts

He has reported that his AHK scripts send keystrokes slower while my AutoIt script is running

Could there be some interaction there?

[Bert]

post your code

[iCode]

What would i post?

I'm not using Opt("SendKeyDelay", n) in my script - i just wanted to know if anybody is aware of the default AutoIt SendKeyDelay (5ms) affecting the Send() function in AHK where there is a delay between sent keystrokes.

If you're thinking of something specific, let me know, otherwise i doubt anyone would be interested in sifting through 5000+ lines of code.

[BrewManNH]

I think the reasoning is, what is your script doing in the background that might be affecting his AHK script's timing? We don't know, and can't tell you, without knowing what it is your script is doing. Is it running an endless loop with no sleep in it, is it accessing something to do with the keyboard? Things like that.

Another thing, whatever the AHK script is doing, it can probably be done better with AutoIt and there wouldn't be any question as to what is happening.

[iCode]

hi BrewManNH

i started to wonder exactly the same thing as i was thinking about this - here is the basic mechanics of it...

While 1

    Sleep(20)

    If $Enable = 0 Then
        ContinueLoop
    ElseIf _IsPressedEx("0x01") And Not _IsPressedEx("0x11") And Not _IsPressedEx("0x12") Then ; mouse 1
        ; then do stuff
    ElseIf _IsPressedEx("0x04") And Not _IsPressedEx("0x10") And Not _IsPressedEx("0x11") And Not _IsPressedEx("0x12") Then ; mouse 3
        ; then do stuff
    EndIf

WEnd

Func _IsPressedEx($sVKey)

    Local $aRet = DllCall($hUser32Dll, "short", "GetAsyncKeyState", "int", $sVKey)
    If @error Then Return SetError(@error, @extended, False)
    Return BitAND($aRet[0], 0x8000) <> 0

EndFunc

there's allot of code removed where i stuck "then do stuff", but basically i want to know when the left or middle mouse button is pressed

$Enable is usually 1, so i'm running through the full loop the vast majority of the time, which means every time the left mouse button is clicked, i'm checking that other keys are not (Ctrl, Alt) and then then running the rest of the code, which i can post if need be - i just have to format it so it's understandable

[BrewManNH]

You should be opening the DLL using DLLOpen before using the function _IsPressedEx (which by the way is identical to the _IsPressed function already in AutoIt), and pass the handle to the DLLCall instead of using the DLL name like you're doing.

I would imagine that all the _IsPressed checking you're doing is slowing down the processing of the keys being sent by the other script.

[iCode]

a handle to the dll is open - i ommited that part

i'll post the rest of the while loop code as soon as i make a sample...