Loop need help!

[Bower]

Hello, I am a little, okay a lot confused on how to loop a script, meaning to make it never stop until the program is closed?

[Richard Robertson]

There are a lot of ways you can do that. The most common is a

While 1

WEnd

You can insert looping code inside of it or just put a sleep and use event driven code. All you need to do is add an Exit somewhere to close the script.

[FreeFry]

As Richard said, have a look at the While - WEnd loop in the helpfile, should get you started.

A simple example would be:

While 1
; code here will loop continously.
    Sleep(25); add a sleep so it will not strain your cpu to much.
WEnd

[Valuater]

This is very useful for "Bots"

; 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

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Edited November 11, 2008 by Valuater