Key Sequence in a loop...

[cereberusv]

Could somebody help me to make something that presses an arrow key, followed by enter, as well as a pause before repeating?

I'm new to this and I am not very sure of all the commands...

Thanks =]

[martin]

Could somebody help me to make something that presses an arrow key, followed by enter, as well as a pause before repeating?

I'm new to this and I am not very sure of all the commands...

Thanks =]

Welcome to the forums

To make a key press look up Send in the help. The way to send the enter key is listed with the other key codes.

To pause look up Sleep.

To repeat you can use While and wend. All these things are in the help with examples, so you can try them out.

Good luck.

[GEOSoft]

Put the following into a loop. Remember to add a method to exit the loop

Send("{RIGHT} {ENTER}");; Send the arrow right key followed by enter
Sleep (2000);; Sleep for 2 seconds

The following will perform the operation 3 times in a loop

For $i = 1 To 3
   Send("{RIGHT} {ENTER}");; Send the arrow right key followed by enter
   Sleep (2000);; Sleep for 2 seconds
Next

You might have to play with

Opt ("SendKeyDelay")

value (see help) to get it working properly.

[cereberusv]

Thank you, both of you, for your help, also i tried setting it to a hotkey like this

For $i = 1 To 3
 HotKeySet ("-" [, "Send("{RIGHT} {ENTER}")"] )
   Sleep (2000);; Sleep for 2 seconds
Next

but that did not work, i get an error, would anybody know why that is?

Edited December 30, 2007 by cereberusv

[GEOSoft]

Thank you, both of you, for your help, also i tried setting it to a hotkey like this

For $i = 1 To 3
 HotKeySet ("-" [, "Send("{RIGHT} {ENTER}")"] )
   Sleep (2000);; Sleep for 2 seconds
Next

but that did not work, i get an error, would anybody know why that is?

No doubt in my mind that you got an error. You can not use HotKeySet that way.

HotKeySet("-", "MyFunc")
HotKeySet("{ESC}", "Quit")
While 1
   Sleep (20)
Wend
Func MyFunc()
   For $i = 1 To 3
      Send("{RIGHT} {ENTER}");; Send the arrow right key followed by enter
      Sleep (2000);; Sleep for 2 seconds
   Next
EndFunc
Func Quit()
   Exit
EndFunc

Edit: in the code above you can remove "For $i = 1 To 3" and "Next" so that it will only send the keys once each time you press "-"

Edited December 30, 2007 by GEOSoft

[cereberusv]

Very helpful,

Thx GEOSoft =]