Help with EASY script needed

[eNkee]

Hello there!

I am new at scripts and all that, and I really need you'all's guys help!

I want to create a script, that presses a certain button continuously. For example pressing the button "B" every 0,5 seconds. I know it is something about "send" or something, and there is some unknown way for me to create a interval (i read the readme file), and i would also want to know more ways to make this script. Thank you guys in advance

[qsek]

i suggest you get familiar with the autoit helpfile and look after functions that sounds like what you want to do.

For example: MouseClick, Sleep, For...To...Step...Next

Especially look on the example scripts on every function.

[eNkee]

well i looked it up, it's a huge helpfile, but all i got was "send" stays for pressing buttons, and nothing else .. can't you just type it for me please =)

[qsek]

For example: MouseClick, Sleep, For...To...Step...Next

just type those words into the index, there is all you need

[eNkee]

i suggest you get familiar with the autoit helpfile and look after functions that sounds like what you want to do.

For example: MouseClick, Sleep, For...To...Step...Next

Especially look on the example scripts on every function.

just type those words into the index, there is all you need

i got this part so far

send ("q")

Opt("SendKeyDelay", 50)

/

send ("q")

Sleep(2500)

what else? hot to make it do it again?

Edited June 5, 2009 by eNkee

[qsek]

oh you want to press a key on the keyboard, not a button in a window. You have to write more exactly what you want.

But anyway why do you not try Sleep and For?

Sleep = wait xxx miliseconds before continue to next line

for Loop = Loop the click and the sleep xx times

[6105]

While 1 = 1
   send ("q")
   Sleep(500)
Wend

Edited June 6, 2009 by toader

[Inverted]

The proper infinite loop is "while 1 ... wend"

[GEOSoft]

While 1 = 1
   send ("q")
   Opt("SendKeyDelay", 500)
Wend

1) While 1 = 1 is not good

2) Why do you want to reset the SendKeyDelay on each iteration of the loop? It only needs setting once at the top of the script. A sleep() is what's needed and with more of the OPs code it may not even require that.

[stampy]

Should be...

While 1
   send ("b")
   Sleep(500)
Wend

This will press the b key every .5 seconds.

[Inverted]

Then why did you write 1=1 again ?

It looks bad

[stampy]

ok... patience... ummm.... ummm... (chanting for relaxation) ... umm....

This is incorrect :

While 1=1   ;<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
   send ("b")
   Sleep(500)
Wend

[herewasplato]

At the risk of hijacking this thread I'll ask for something other than an opinion as to what is "incorrect" or "bad" about using:

While 1 = 1

It may look bad to some of you and it is okay for you to state that opinion. But to say that it is bad or incorrect...... well, please tell me why. Is this going to be broken in some future release? I can not see how.

While <expression>
     statements
     ...
 WEnd

[Inverted]

It's just better to follow the guidelines set by the language documentation and the developers.

[herewasplato]

It's just better to follow the guidelines set by the language documentation and the developers.

Then start preparing to use:

While True

:-)

[Skruge]

Then start preparing to use:

While True

:-)

True, true.

(Hey, the tag works!)

"While 1=1" isn't bad, it's just one extra computation that must be done.

In the grand scheme of things it's not going to have any impact.

So, everyone just relax and enjoy the game.

[eNkee]

Thank you guys =) helped

my first one was crazier

While $i <= 10
send ("b")
Sleep(100)
$i = $i + 0
WEnd

haha =)

Edited June 6, 2009 by eNkee

[GEOSoft]

Thank you guys =) helped

my first one was crazier

While $i <= 10
send ("b")
Sleep(100)
$i = $i + 0
WEnd

haha =)

That was definitly crazy, particularily when you really stop and think about theis line

$i = $i + 0

If it was

$i += 1

then there is nothing wrong with that one.

As for why is While 1 = 1 bad? I wrote a long reply to that last night and then when I went to post it the forum was down for backup but here is the core argument. It works but it's a bad coding practice primarily because of the confusion it can cause new posters.

Will it be broken by future releases? Doubful. I don't think even Microsoft could break that and if they can't break it then nobody can.

[eNkee]

yes, but of i would put $i += 1 then it would press the button just a certain ammount of time, until the sentence would be true, and in my case it would press it 10 times, because i wrote $i <= 10. but it worked! =)

[GEOSoft]

yes, but of i would put $i += 1 then it would press the button just a certain ammount of time, until the sentence would be true, and in my case it would press it 10 times, because i wrote $i <= 10. but it worked! =)

Impossible because you never allowed $i to change. You kept it at whatever the starting value was by adding 0 to it. The only other possibility is that you changed it elswhere in your code and you didn't post that part.