Detecting actual keypresses v. Send("{Key}"?

[ryantollefson]

I have a directional pad in a gui that sends keypresses (up/down/left/right) - this works just fine. I also want to be able to detect when the user presses the actual up/down/left/right keys; however, when I am using "_IsPressed" it will detect both the actual keypresses, and the gui (simulated) keypresses. Is there a way to only detect (for example) the left arrow keypresses from the actual keyboard and not from: Send("{LEFT}") that the gui uses?

Thanks for any advice.

[Misha]

Use a hotkeyset function.

[ChrisL]

Use a hotkeyset function.

That still detects send()

[poisonkiller]

Unset hotkey, Send(), set hotkey back.

[martin]

Unset hotkey, Send(), set hotkey back.

What then would the point of the hot key be?

@ryantollefson

I don't know how to distinguish between a send and an actual key. If no-one has a solution then maybe you could do something like

;start of script

$totalkeysent = 0

$totalkeyin = 0

.

.

.

;when you send a key

countsend($key)

;when you detect a key

if _IsPressed($isk) then $totalkeyin += 1

if $totalkeyin > $totalsent then $usertypekey = true

Func countsend($kk)

send($kk)

$totalkeysent += 1

endfunc

[Richard Robertson]

You would have to go to the hardware level to check for actual versus simulated keystrokes. I suppose you could try DirectInput. It reads hardware directly I think.

[sylvanie]

effectively, like poisonkiller have suggested, this script is able to count only the number of "a" key which have been pressed with the keyboard :

#Include <Misc.au3>
HotKeySet("a","update_number_a")
$number_a=0

While 1
    send("a");to verify that these ones are not counted
    Sleep(1000)
WEnd


func update_number_a()
    If _IsPressed(41) Then 
        HotKeySet("a")
        Send("a")
        $number_a+=1
        ConsoleWrite($number_a&@CRLF)
        HotKeySet("a","update_number_a")
    EndIf
EndFunc

[martin]

effectively, like poisonkiller have suggested, this script is able to count only the number of "a" key which have been pressed with the keyboard :

#Include <Misc.au3>
HotKeySet("a","update_number_a")
$number_a=0

While 1
    send("a");to verify that these ones are not counted
    Sleep(1000)
WEnd
func update_number_a()
    If _IsPressed(41) Then 
        HotKeySet("a")
        Send("a")
        $number_a+=1
        ConsoleWrite($number_a&@CRLF)
        HotKeySet("a","update_number_a")
    EndIf
EndFunc

I think I'm beginning to catch up with everyone else in this thread

I see what is being said, Misha meant use Hotkeyset and don't use _Ispressed, I read it as use HotkeySet to detect the keyboard and not detect the send. Now it all makes sense. I was trying to deal with the problem but still use _IsPressed.

@Poisonkiller, apologies for my misunderstanding.

[martin]

I have a directional pad in a gui that sends keypresses (up/down/left/right) - this works just fine. I also want to be able to detect when the user presses the actual up/down/left/right keys; however, when I am using "_IsPressed" it will detect both the actual keypresses, and the gui (simulated) keypresses. Is there a way to only detect (for example) the left arrow keypresses from the actual keyboard and not from: Send("{LEFT}") that the gui uses?

Thanks for any advice.

There's something I am definitely missing somewhere.

Are you talking about 2 different gui's running at the same time?

If not then how did your script detect a send("{LEFT}") using _IsPressed?