Which do you prefer when setting a script to be idle and using HotKeySet

[guinness]

Right now the script will exit immediately if I don't pause it somehow (obvious of course).

I was  curious on people's opinions of how they do it or what option they prefer below? Thanks

Option 1 (I prefer)

#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>

HotKeySet('^!p', SomeFunc)

ProcessWaitClose(@AutoItPID)

Func SomeFunc()
    MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "Title", "This message box will timeout after 10 seconds or select the OK button.", 10)
EndFunc

Option 2 (in the help file)

#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>

HotKeySet('^!p', SomeFunc)

While Sleep(100)
WEnd

Func SomeFunc()
    MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "Title", "This message box will timeout after 10 seconds or select the OK button.", 10)
EndFunc

Option 3

#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>

HotKeySet('^!p', SomeFunc)

While 1
    GUIGetMsg() ; Use the internal sleep
WEnd

Func SomeFunc()
    MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "Title", "This message box will timeout after 10 seconds or select the OK button.", 10)
EndFunc

 

[Melba23]

guinness,

Nice to see you here.

Personally I always use a mixture of 2 & 3:

While 1
    Sleep(10)
WEnd

But I must say I quite like your preferred version.

M23

[guinness]

Hey @Melba23,

Yeh, so I was just playing around with the new AutoIt release, and thought to myself why is it that I too have always used option 2 or 3, because option 1 seems like a clearer choice. I did a quick search on the Forum and found that it hadn't really been suggested, so thought I would ask to see if my AutoIt skills were somewhat lacking!

[JohnOne]

Use both 2 and 3.

No Idea about the poll rate or overhead of 1.

[guinness]

  On 4/22/2018 at 7:04 PM, JohnOne said:

Use both 2 and 3.

No Idea about the poll rate or overhead of 1.

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It uses the default idle time, which is 10ms

[JohnOne]

Cheers.

Still probably wouldn't use it myself, just seems a bit wasteful of cpu cycles and of course energy in general.

[guinness]

  On 4/22/2018 at 7:58 PM, JohnOne said:

Cheers.

Still probably wouldn't use it myself, just seems a bit wasteful of cpu cycles and of course energy in general.

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True

[TheSaint]

I've never been a big fan of HotKeySet, so I use Option 4, which uses _IsPressed() ..... opening and closing the DLL of course, and using While...Wend usually.

But it is always nice to see the other options available, so thanks.

Trust me to be different hey.

The main reason I guess, is because depending on your system I have often found Hotkeys to be slow or unreliable.

[iamtheky]

i had never considered #1.  I imagine I will use it widely as i do fancy a good one liner.