ControlSend with Shift/Alt/Ctrl

[jiggy]

Hey, all. I'm coming from AHK, which had issues with key modifiers and ControlSend. If CS was used in a loop and you tried to use ctrl/shift or alt while the command was fired, the keys weren't registered. Essentially, if the loop was very fast, none of those keys would work at all.

Before I try and learn this scripting language, I was wondering if AutoIt has this issue and, if so, has any workarounds.

Thanks :]

[Xenobiologist]

I don't think so. But give it a try. A loop with ControlSend command will take you 3 seconds to write.

[jiggy]

Heh. Yeah, if you already know the language

EDIT: I'm getting the same 'stuck keys' bug that I've been reading about, but can't seem to get the 'flag = 1' option to work. I don't think that's my issue, but it's worth a try.

But, I can't seem to get it to work on in inactive Chrome window. Firefox works okay- which is acceptable, but Chrome would be ideal. Plus, it's strange thatit works on the very unspecific FF window that doesn't even appear to have any control values on the window info utility:

ControlSend("FARK", "", "", "{DOWN}")

...But doesn't work on a very specific Chrome window:

ControlSend("FARK", "", "[ID:294967424; CLASS:Chrome_RenderWidgetHostHWND; INSTANCE:1]", "{DOWN}")

Or, maybe I'm just doing something wrong

Anywho, maybe I should make a new thread? Seems weird. Here's my script, if you want to take a look:

AutoItSetOption("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)

Global $Paused
HotKeySet("{PAUSE}", "TogglePause")

While 1
    ControlSend("FARK", "", "[ID:294967424; CLASS:Chrome_RenderWidgetHostHWND; INSTANCE:1]", "{DOWN}")
    Sleep(1000)
WEnd

Func TogglePause()
    $Paused = NOT $Paused
    While $Paused
        sleep(100)
    WEnd
EndFunc

Edited July 28, 2014 by jiggy

[computergroove]

You need to find some way of getting the programs handle and assigning it to a variable.

Local $hWnd = WinWait(@ProgramFilesDir & "\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe", "", 10)

So long as you launch the program from within your script and you dont close the program then the handle for that window will stay the same.

Edited July 29, 2014 by computergroove

[jiggy]

Hmm, interesting. I still couldn't get it to work, but FF is fine and I'm willing to accept that

[computergroove]

If I want to automate a window but still use my computer for other things then I just make a virtual machine and run chrome in the virtual machine and my script that continues to send "{DOWN}" from within the virtual machine. It doesn't affect the operation of my main OS and it runs forever. Is this just an example or can I ask why you want to continue to press down every 1 second?