Setting up a macro

[Dakidd4990]

Im fairly new to Autoit and computer languages as a whole but i feel im learning fairly quickly.

Im a little bit stumped on 1 thing.

What i want to do is make a script that will let me hit a button and have it keep spamming that button until i tell it to stop.

I tried a bunch of different things and i cant get anything to work. The best i can come up with is something along the lines of:

Winactivate("World of Warcraft")

Hotkeyset("{Pause}","Macro")

Func Macro()

Send("{- down}")

EndFunc

Dont make fun of me too much. I know i suck and thats probably insanely far off from what i need to do. Thats why im here asking for help. Atleast i tried

I want to be able to hit my hotkey (In this case Pause/Break key) and have it spam the key in the send line (In this case -) I'm sure this is possible im just not exactly sure what i did wrong.

Edited July 2, 2008 by Dakidd4990

[goldenix]

See how this works, learn.

Global $sTOP = False

Winactivate("World of Warcraft")
Hotkeyset("{Pause}","Macro") ; register hotkey

Func Macro()
    Beep(800,100)
    Hotkeyset("{Pause}")            ; Un register hotkey
    Hotkeyset("{Pause}","_stop")    ; register hotkey   
    
    While 1
        Sleep(1000)             ; send Down every 1 second
        Send("{down}")
        
        If $sTOP = True Then 
            $sTOP = False
            Return              ; IF tRUE THEN EXIT FUNCTION
        EndIf
    WEnd

EndFunc


Func _stop()
    Beep(800,100)
    Hotkeyset("{Pause}")            ; Un register hotkey
    Hotkeyset("{Pause}","Macro")    ; register hotkey   
    
    $sTOP = True
EndFunc


While 1
    Sleep(100) ; keep script alive
WEnd

Edited July 2, 2008 by goldenix