not planning on doing much...

[Guest Singularis]

i heard about this language from a friend who said it was great for making macros, and i was like "yay, i need macros". so i started lookin into it, and i was like "yay, another programming language to learn!" then after a while, i was thinking, "shit, another language to learn." i dont need alot to be done, all i need is for this to run in the background and press "2" every x amount of seconds, where x is easily modified. could someone be so kind as to write me a little program to do this for me?

[edit] it would be great if it had an exit script button also, but im sure thats assumed. F12 would do fine.

Edited November 13, 2004 by Singularis

[scriptkitty]

Well it is really simple to learn. here is an example.

Hotkeyset("{F12}","endthis") ; sets a hotkey to run function

Sleep(10000); start in 10 seconds
while 1; this starts a loop
send("2"); this is what key to press
sleep(2000); wait 2 seconds before continuing
wend; this starts the loop over W(hile)END

func endthis(); this is a funtion
exit ; exits program
endfunc

Edited November 13, 2004 by scriptkitty

[the_lord_mephy]

Wow, lol scriptkitty explains it well. You got lotsa comments in there:)

[scriptkitty]

Personally I like to just pause my macros, so I use pause key

Hotkeyset("{pause}","pausethis"); sets a hotkey to run function
$x=1
pausethis(); starts it paused
while 1; this starts a loop
send("2"); this is what key to press
sleep(2000); wait 2 seconds before continuing
wend; this starts the loop over W(hile)END

func pausethis(); this is a funtion
$x=NOT $X
while NOT $x
sleep(1)
tooltip("Paused",0,0)
wend
endfunc

heh heh, well if I can't make you try, I can stuff code with info.

Edited November 13, 2004 by scriptkitty

[Guest Singularis]

Hotkeyset("{F12}","endthis"); sets a hotkey to run function

thanks, this does exactly what i want it to do, but i dont think my exit key is working properly

[the_lord_mephy]

What do these two lines mean:

$x=NOT $X

while NOT $x

[scriptkitty]

F12 is used by many things, I normally use Pause or Printscreen.

[scriptkitty]

Hotkeyset("{pause}","pausethis") ;sets a hotkey to run function
$x=1               ;Dimentions and gives value to $x
pausethis()       ;starts it paused
while 1            ;this starts a loop
send("2")         ; this is what key to press
sleep(2000)        ; wait 2 seconds before continuing
wend                ; this starts the loop over W(hile)END

; a function is like a little program or subroutine that runs when called
; in this case it is called every time you hit the hot key.
; it is ignored until called.

func pausethis()  ; this is a funtion
$x=NOT $X         ;this changes $x to NOT $X   Logical think multiply by -1
while NOT $x       ; if 1 then -1 if -1 then 1, see
sleep(1)              ; just a really fast pause for CPU
tooltip("Paused",0,0); show newer versions of windows a tip that it is paused
wend                   ; same as above
endfunc               ; ends the function and goes back to program

I think it is far easier to read without the comments, but..

Edited November 13, 2004 by scriptkitty

[Guest Singularis]

thanks guys, i was able to mod it to fit my needs just fine. couldnt get the pause to work right, so i just set it to run a 10 sec timer at the very beginning.