Holding down keyboard keys

[Orange9]

Er...i dont know how to hold down a certain key on the keyboard. I've read the help function n it gave me various commands for it, but the parameters dont make sense. For example the Opt("SendKeyDownDelay", x) where x is the number of milliseconds. Well, it requires me to input the amount of time to hold the key for, which is great, but where do i input the actual key that it presses? For example if i wanted to hold down the key "a", where do i put that?

[this-is-me]

You know, the help file is a lot more helpful than you may think.

To hold a key down (generally only useful for games)

Send("{a down}") ;Holds the A key down

Send("{a up}") ;Releases the A key

[Orange9]

Yes, i know, i've read that too. But the problem with THIS command is that it doesnt ask u how long to hold that particular key for.

[martin]

Opt("SendKeyDownDelay", 1000);set subesquent keys to be held down for 1000ms

send("a");key a is held down for 1000ms then released

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Opt("SendKeyDownDelay", 10);keys will be held down for 10 ms from now on

[Helge]

Opt is an alias for AutoItSetOption, which is function that is used to configure how some

parts of AutoIt works. It doesn't do any action in itself.

When using Opt with "SendKeyDownDelay" you set how long the release-delay for Send

should be, for example when you send "a". However when you use Send like this-is-me

showed, sending "{a down}", I believe it's up to the scripter to manually release it, by

sending "{a up}".

So, what do you want ? Do you want the script to just send "a" and then continue, or do

you want the script to hold down "a", do some stuff and then release "a" again ?

[Orange9]

Cool. But it doesnt seem to work for me. When i open notepad, if i hold down the button, lets say "a", it supposed to keep repeating "a"s on the notepad until i release the "a" button right? but it doesnt ><

[dandymcgee]

You really need to be more specific of what you want. If you just need to hold down a key then

Send("{a down}")
Sleep("INPUT TIME")
Send("{a up}")

Please explain exactly what you expect the "a" key to do.

Edited October 8, 2006 by dandymcgee