Right click tray icon and Script paused

[kripz]

When i right click the icon there is script paused and its ticked, what does this mean?

[SmOke_N]

  kripz said:

When i right click the icon there is script paused and its ticked, what does this mean?

That you've paused the script/exe from running.

If you want to "un-pause", click the check mark.

[kripz]

  SmOke_N said:

That you've paused the script/exe from running.

If you want to "un-pause", click the check mark.

How do i disable users from pausing the script, get rid of the pause option from the right click menu completely?

[SmOke_N]

  kripz said:

How do i disable users from pausing the script, get rid of the pause option from the right click menu completely?

Look in the help file index under Opt

Find your choice:

  helpfile said:

TrayAutoPause Script pauses when click on tray icon.

0 = no pause

1 = pause (default). If there is no DefaultMenu no pause will occurs.

TrayIconDebug If enabled shows the current script line in the tray icon tip to help debugging.

0 = no debug information (default)

1 = show debug

TrayIconHide Hides the AutoIt tray icon. Note: The icon will still initially appear ~750 milliseconds.

0 = show icon (default)

1 = hide icon

TrayMenuMode Extend the behaviour of the script tray icon/menu. This can be done with a combination (adding) of the following values.

0 = default menu items (Script Paused/Exit) are appended to the usercreated menu; usercreated checked items will automatically unchecked; if you double click the tray icon then the controlid is returned which has the "Default"-style (default).

1 = no default menu

2 = usercreated checked items will not automatically unchecked if you click it

4 = don't return the menuitemID which has the "default"-style in the main contextmenu if you double click the tray icon

8 = turn off auto check of radio item groups

[murdock]

Im kinda curious how autoit does this?

Ive never been able to pause scripts from my GUIs before if they were already in a while loop, but they do pause if I hit the tray button.

How can I call whatever function its using?

[Nahuel]

You could try something like this:

HotKeySet("{PAUSE}", "TogglePause")
Func TogglePause()
    $Paused = NOT $Paused
    While $Paused
        sleep(10)
    WEnd
EndFunc

Add this to your script and you can pause the execution pressing the pause key.

[Tasmania]

  murdock said:

Im kinda curious how autoit does this?

Ive never been able to pause scripts from my GUIs before if they were already in a while loop, but they do pause if I hit the tray button.

How can I call whatever function its using?

The easiest way to pause a script is to do the following:

Global $Paused = 0

HotKeySet("{PAUSE}", "pause")

Func pause()

$Paused= NOT $Paused

While $Paused

sleep(100)

TraySetState(4)

WEnd

TraySetState(8)

EndFunc

Modified from somewhere within the help file.

Edited October 15, 2007 by Tasmania

[Tasmania]

  Nahuel said:

You could try something like this:

HotKeySet("{PAUSE}", "TogglePause")
Func TogglePause()
    $Paused = NOT $Paused
    While $Paused
        sleep(10)
    WEnd
EndFunc

Add this to your script and you can pause the execution pressing the pause key.

I don't reccomend putting the sleep at 10 miliseconds as this causes more polling on the CPU. I reccomend setting sleep to 100 ms or maybe even 2 or 300 ms... however what you may need is up to you.

[Nahuel]

  Tasmania said:

I don't reccomend putting the sleep at 10 miliseconds as this causes more polling on the CPU. I reccomend setting sleep to 100 ms or maybe even 2 or 300 ms... however what you may need is up to you.

Yeah, that's actually a typo. It said 100. Thanks for noticing.

[murdock]

  Tasmania said:

I don't reccomend putting the sleep at 10 miliseconds as this causes more polling on the CPU. I reccomend setting sleep to 100 ms or maybe even 2 or 300 ms... however what you may need is up to you.

Ya I will fool with the timing. I'm a big fan of straining the CPU as little as possible.

Thanks for the lighning quick replies too