Little help with HotKeySet

[infinitenight]

I've never written a macro before so bare with whatever obvious mistakes I may have made here...

Basically the macro I have created so far just hits 4 keys (7,8,9,0) every 8.1 seconds. Works well enough, but I would like to modify this so that I can toggle this on and off with a hotkey.

What I've got so far:

HotKeySet("`","Twist")

Func Twist()

$loop = 0

While $loop = 0

Sleep(8100)

Send("7")

Sleep(100)

Send("8")

Sleep(100)

Send("9")

Sleep(100)

Send("0")

WEnd

EndFunc

I've tryed following the examples in the help file as best I could but can't get the hotkey to work. Can anyone point out what mistakes I have made here?

[SmOke_N]

HotKeySet() has the exact example you're talking about in the help file.

[Walls192]

Try using:

HotKeySet("{WHATEVER KEY}", "Twist")

Edited November 3, 2007 by Walls192

[Achilles]

; Press Esc to terminate script, Pause/Break to "pause"

Global $Paused
HotKeySet("{PAUSE}", "TogglePause")
HotKeySet("{ESC}", "Terminate")
HotKeySet("+!d", "ShowMessage") ;Shift-Alt-d

;;;; Body of program would go here;;;;
While 1
    Sleep(100)
WEnd
;;;;;;;;

Func TogglePause()
    $Paused = NOT $Paused
    While $Paused
        sleep(100)
        ToolTip('Script is "Paused"',0,0)
    WEnd
    ToolTip("")
EndFunc

Func Terminate()
    Exit 0
EndFunc

Func ShowMessage()
    MsgBox(4096,"","This is a message.")
EndFunc

[infinitenight]

I assumed at first that the example was actually calling some kind of pause funtion, which was not very helpful for what I wanted to do. After reading responces and doing more testing I figured it out and got what I wanted, so thanks

Global $Twist
HotKeySet("`", "ToggleTwist")


;;;; Body of program would go here;;;;
While 1
    Sleep(100)
WEnd
;;;;;;;;

Func ToggleTwist()
    $Twist = NOT $Twist
    While $Twist
            Send("7")
            Sleep(100)
            Send("8")
            Sleep(100)
            Send("9")
            Sleep(100)
            Send("0")
            Sleep(8100)
        WEnd
EndFunc

[infinitenight]

ALMOST got what I wanted anyway

The script worked fine while testing in notepad, but when I try to use it in the program (game actually) that I created it for, I get nothing. I inserted some WinActive code lines that.. sort of worked. If I hit the hotkey outside of the game, it would bring up the game and start the macro. But I can't start or stop the macro while the game is the active window.

Any ideas what could be going on here? Is it possible to get around this?

[Achilles]

Does the game use the hotkey you are trying to use in your script?

[infinitenight]

No it doesn't. It also does not use gameguard (I've a lot of people posting about this blocking them). Haven't found anything helpful yet

[rasim]

What occurs here first time and second time?

$Paused = NOT $Paused