SendKeepActive loses focus

[trbn]

Hello,

when using Autoit function "SendKeepActive" in combination with repated single character Send, AutoIt loses focus if I click on the desktop or another window.

Can anyone reproduce this behaviour? Or is this a bug? I'm on "Win Server 2008 R2 Standard". Example Code is attached. Function "_SingleCharRepeat_Fails" produces the failure. Function "_NO_SingleCharRepeat_Works" works as expected.

 

Thank You

 

SendKeepActive_loses_focus.au3

[trbn]

4 minutes ago, trbn said:

Hello,

when using Autoit function "SendKeepActive" in combination with repated single character Send, AutoIt loses focus if I click on the desktop or another window.

Can anyone reproduce this behaviour? Or is this a bug? I'm on "Win Server 2008 R2 Standard". Example Code is attached. Function "_SingleCharRepeat_Fails" produces the failure. Function "_NO_SingleCharRepeat_Works" works as expected.

Thank You

SendKeepActive_loses_focus.au3

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If (SendKeepActive("[CLASS:Notepad]")) Then
        $OldDelay = Opt("SendKeyDelay", 50)
        Send("{a 50}")                          ; <--- Fails, when I click on desktop or another window while script runs
        Opt("SendKeyDelay", $OldDelay)
EndIf

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If (SendKeepActive("[CLASS:Notepad]")) Then
    $OldDelay = Opt("SendKeyDelay", 50)
    Send("aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa")   ; Works as expected, even if I click on the desktop while script runs
    Opt("SendKeyDelay", $OldDelay)
EndIf

 

[careca]

why did you quote yourself?

why the "if" with sendkeepactive?

[trbn]

Sorry,  I quoted myself by mistake.

 

Why not "if" with sendkeepactive? But thanks to your question, I noticed my given code example wasn't complete.

 

It should have look like this:

If (SendKeepActive("[CLASS:Notepad]")) Then
    $OldDelay = Opt("SendKeyDelay", 50)
    Send("{a 50}")
    Opt("SendKeyDelay", $OldDelay)
    SendKeepActive("")
Else
    ; Sum-Ting WenWong
EndIf

 

But it still loses focus (when I click on the Desktop or elsewhere).

 

Even if I do this:

 

SendKeepActive("[CLASS:Notepad]")
$OldDelay = Opt("SendKeyDelay", 50)
Send("{a 50}")
Opt("SendKeyDelay", $OldDelay)
SendKeepActive("")

It loses focus (when I click on the Desktop or elsewhere).

 

When I change this line

Send("{a 50}")

to

Send("aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa")

Then it works.

 

Can you repdroduce this behaviour.

 

Thank you for taking the time

[careca]

Nope, it works here with both the provided codes

As for the:

If (SendKeepActive("[CLASS:Notepad]")) Then

I just never seen that function coupled with an If, but it works yes

You could use a winactivate with the rest of the code and see how it goes.

Edited December 11, 2017 by careca