BlockInput behaviour

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I am using WinXP and as to the Function Reference BlockInput should work correctly.

But I noticed that the use of BlockInput makes my scripts behave differently.

Example:

Just some lines to activate Internet Explorer and open the Options dialog

AutoItSetOption ( "WinTitleMatchMode", 2 )
    WinActivate ( "- Microsoft Internet Explorer" )
    WinWaitActive("- Microsoft Internet Explorer")
    Send ( "!x" )
    Send ( "o" )
Exit

This works as long as I am not using BlockInput. When I preceed that with BlockInput (1) it somehow fails at the ALT-x step

What's happening here?

[Valik]

BlockInput and the Alt key do not go well together. Jon said it was a bug in the OS, I believe.

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BlockInput and the Alt key do not go well together. Jon said it was a bug in the OS, I believe.

Darn, this makes BlockInput nearly useless for me, since my scripts are full of ALT key usages. I was just glad I finally made it to XP since 98 didn't support BlockInput at all and now there's a drawback again.

Is there any workaround? I hesitate to embrace each Send command that uses the Alt key with a BlockInput (0) and BlockInput (1)...on the other hand...

Any ideas?

[CyberSlug]

You can wrap the command in a user-defined function.

_Send("!x")
_Send("o")
Exit

Func _Send($keys)
   BlockInput(0)
   Send($keys)
   BlockInput(1)
EndFunc

Or something like that.

[Jon]

Darn, this makes BlockInput nearly useless for me, since my scripts are full of ALT key usages. I was just glad I finally made it to XP since 98 didn't support BlockInput at all and now there's a drawback again.

It iused to work perfectly on XP but a recent hotfix broke it

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A user defined function (included) is a good idea. It doesn't seem do slow things down so I can live with that ...until the next XP-hotfix*lol*

Thanks

[Valik]

A user defined function (included) is a good idea. It doesn't seem do slow things down so I can live with that ...until the next XP-hotfix*lol*

Thanks

It could be something Microsoft meant to do as it's not fixed in SP-2 Beta 1. I've not seen any information on this other than what Jon has said, though, so if anybody has anything else, let me know.

[GEOSoft]

It iused to work perfectly on XP but a recent hotfix broke it

Do you know which hotfix, Jon? There was one that was just removed from the server because of some problems and most MS patches now allow a rollback. If you have a number for the patch I'll see what I can find out for you.

[Jon]

No idea. By the time someone had reported the problem my system was already updated. And I've only installed the "critical" patches so it wouldn't be the sort of thing you would want to uninstall anyway