New to AutoIt: Need Help!

[sgmailer]

Hi,

I'm trying to write a simple program to perform one mouse click and then infinitely press a single key at regular intervals.

Can anybody help me out?

Thanks and if anyone can point to any tutorials, that would also be appreciated.

[SmOke_N]

you look at

While / Wend - MouseClick() - and _IsPressed or Send() for the single key

Note: _IsPressed is a Beta UDF... The others you'll be able to find in the ever precious Help File of AutoIt, probably the closest thing thus far to a tutorial with working examples on each function.

[sgmailer]

Hmm...I was wondering, if I use an infinite loop, how will I get out of the loop after I run the script?

[SmOke_N]

With a While you'll use ExitLoop or HotKey... Do / Until a certain criteria you set becomes true - For / Next... the number of times you wanted to go through the command.

Edit:

If you look at HotKeySet in the help file, something like Pause or Terminate, you could use for any part of your script or any loop. Most of us use them at some point in our scripts, and some of us always.

Edited October 29, 2005 by ronsrules

[Nuffilein805]

do a hotkey!

hotkeyset("!+^8", "letmego");ctrl+alt+shift+8
func letmego()
exit
endfunc

thats your way out of your infinite-loop

[sgmailer]

Ah, I didn't even do a hotkey since I'm not familiar with that, I just resorted to click on the taskbar icon to end the loop. :-P

Anyway, since I already know JAVA and in that language, they also have for, do-while, and while loops. I figure I would just do a infinite loop with a do loop.

My first program!

MouseClick("left", 600, 500, 1)

$count = 1
Do
    Send("s")
;Sleep(200)
    
    $count = $count + 1  
Until $count < 0

Thanks for all the help!

Edited October 29, 2005 by sgmailer

[Nuffilein805]

whats your script supposed to do?

1 leftclick and at a delay of 0.2 secs send "s"?

where do you need that?

[LxP]

Welcome to the forums!

Your script can also be written this way (anything not equal to 0 can be interpreted as a True Boolean, which you would be familiar with given your Java experience):

MouseClick('', 600, 500)
While 1
    Send('s')
   ; Sleep(200)
WEnd