Pausing Multiple exe"s already running

[smcombs]

Ok I have multiple exe's that I have created that all work together and I need to pause them all at the same time. I am using the Toggle Pause Function in each exe however they do not all pause at the same time when I hit pause break which I kinda figured would happen. Is it possible for me to perform like a process pause on these exe's. By the way all exe's are created with Autoit. I had all my code in one script but my if statements were taking too much time because I had them nested so I put them in their own exe

Thanks

[smcombs]

Ok I may have found my fix. May try a ProcessWait or something any other suggestions would be awesome

[Regency]

Umm, have a chain of pauses, have [pause] for the first one, and in that function, it sends the key to pause the next, and so on

[Authenticity]

Each process own a window to send a message to?

[smcombs]

Each process own a window to send a message to?

No they are all just scripts basically.

[Authenticity]

Well, I don't see any necessity for it but you can at least consider it. You can create a process to process the pause hot-key and use PostMessage to the entire top-level windows in the system like:

#include <WinAPI.au3>
HotKeySet('{PAUSE}', 'Pause')
Global $fPause = False
$MyMsg = _WinAPI_RegisterWindowMessage('___MyMessage')

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Func Pause()
    $fPause = Not $fPause
    If $fPause Then
        _WinAPI_PostMessage(0xFFFF, $MyMsg, True, 0)
    Else
        _WinAPI_PostMessage(0xFFF, $MyMsg, False, 0)
    EndIf
EndFunc

For each process you create, you can create invisible window and then use GUIRegisterMsg using this message string "$MyMsg = _WinAPI_RegisterWindowMessage('___MyMessage')". If $wParam = True then the process pause, otherwise it's resumed.

[smcombs]

Ok yeah awesome thanks very much. I was also thinking about having each exe have a processwaitclose in it to check for another process that I could create from my script that is going to be doing the pausing. Lol, my brain is warped now. Thanks for the help.