Help with script when key is being held down

[Oblivious]

I'm a bit new to this whole scripting thing so I'm sorry if this is fairly simple to many of you. I was looking at the AutoIt FAQ on the wiki page and I saw the example given which was: 

#include <Misc.au3>
$pressed = 0
While 1
	If _IsPressed("4B") Then
		If Not $pressed Then
			ToolTip("K Key being held down")
			MouseDown("left")
			$pressed = 1
		EndIf
	Else
		If $pressed Then
			ToolTip("")
			MouseUp("left")
			$pressed = 0
		EndIf
	EndIf
	Sleep(250)
WEnd

 

But after looking at this, I was wondering how I could make a script where by holding down 'e', it would first press 'e' once, hold down 'a' and 's' for 100 ms then release them, then finally press left Alt. The keystrokes would then be repeated for as long as the 'e' key is held down, so if it was released, it would stop repeating the process ('e' -> hold down 'a' and 's' for 100 ms then release both -> press left Alt -> repeat).

I apologize if this is in the wrong section and if this is simple to many of you, I hope that I can use the information given by you all to good use. Your help is greatly appreciated!

[water]

Welcome to AutoIt and the forum!

Which application do you try to automate?
Sending keys is not very reliable because keys always get sent to the active window, the user might interfere with your script etc. etc.

If we know what you try to achieve we can try to suggest a reliable solution