_ispressed -- mouse events

[sulfurious]

Hi. I had a need to repeat some functions based upon how long a mouse key would be held down. I started playing by using the _ispressed() function. What I found was that it seemed to detect the mouse click as a whole unit, as in _ispressed(01) would equal 1 (true) if the click happened, as in UP and DOWN. I could not get it to do a loop WHILE DOWN. So, I made a simple loop that when the button was pressed and released, did what I wanted X number of times.

In some debugging I happened to put a msgbox in the mouse area and found a peculilar thing happened. With a message box in place on a timer to exit, the _ispressed() function started looping. So, here is a small sample to play with. I have not been able to get some 'text' to send to notepad repeatedly UNLESS the msgbox() is active. Can anyone explain what is going on here? How come a msgbox() on a timeout causes the function to work one way, and not using it cannot reproduce it?

I should state, that I am talking about holding the mouse button down, and having text go to notepad continuously until mouse button is released.

Sul.

#include <Misc.au3>
HotKeySet("{esc}", "Quit")
$dll = DllOpen("user32.dll")

While 1
    If WinActive('Untitled - Notepad') Then
        If _IsPressed(01,$dll) Then
            MsgBox(0,'01','pressed  : ' & _IsPressed(01),2)
            Do
                Send('abc')
                Sleep(20)
            Until  _IsPressed('1',$dll) = 0
        EndIf
    EndIf
WEnd

[martin]

Hi. I had a need to repeat some functions based upon how long a mouse key would be held down. I started playing by using the _ispressed() function. What I found was that it seemed to detect the mouse click as a whole unit, as in _ispressed(01) would equal 1 (true) if the click happened, as in UP and DOWN. I could not get it to do a loop WHILE DOWN. So, I made a simple loop that when the button was pressed and released, did what I wanted X number of times.

In some debugging I happened to put a msgbox in the mouse area and found a peculilar thing happened. With a message box in place on a timer to exit, the _ispressed() function started looping. So, here is a small sample to play with. I have not been able to get some 'text' to send to notepad repeatedly UNLESS the msgbox() is active. Can anyone explain what is going on here? How come a msgbox() on a timeout causes the function to work one way, and not using it cannot reproduce it?

I should state, that I am talking about holding the mouse button down, and having text go to notepad continuously until mouse button is released.

Sul.

#include <Misc.au3>
HotKeySet("{esc}", "Quit")
$dll = DllOpen("user32.dll")

While 1
    If WinActive('Untitled - Notepad') Then
        If _IsPressed(01,$dll) Then
            MsgBox(0,'01','pressed  : ' & _IsPressed(01),2)
            Do
                Send('abc')
                Sleep(20)
            Until  _IsPressed('1',$dll) = 0
        EndIf
    EndIf
WEnd

Notepad doesn't process keystrokes if the left mouse button is held down. For some reason the message box ending counteracts the mouse button being down if only for a short time.

Try typing into Notepad and while you're typing hold the left mouse button down, the same with edits created by AutoIt. This doesn't happen in Scite so maybe it's a question of finding the right editor.

Edited April 7, 2008 by martin