To wait for a keystroke?

[Dart]

I'm trying to make my script continue on a keystroke. I understand the hotkeys, but that's not what i'm trying to use.

I'd like my script to wait at a certain point and then once the left mouse button is pressed, i'd like it to continue.

I've been searching for a while on how to intercept the left mouse button click.

The closest thing i found was under _IsPressed custom function. Is this the only option?

I would basically be doing something like this...

while 1
  sleep(100)
  if mouse-button-pressed then
      exit loop
WEnd

Seems basic but i can't find any documentation on it after searching/reading the help files and searching the forums.

I'm looking for something very basic for which i don't have to scan dll files or add libraries if possible.

[Ascend4nt]

You probably should have changed the title of this thread to 'mouse click' instead of keystroke.

Anyway, for mouse clicks, you can use the _MouseSetOnEvent() UDF

[GEOSoft]

#include <Misc.au3>

$dll = DllOpen("user32.dll")

Do
    Sleep ( 250 )
Until _IsPressed("01", $dll)
DllClose($dll)

[Dart]

Yea i guess i was thinking about keystrokes but for user-friendliness toward my ultimate goal it would be better to wait for a mouse click. A keystroke would be fine too though, just not as user-friendly.

The link you provided me with seems nice, but it is overly complex. Is there really no simple or built-in function or variable that tells you what the last button/keystroke clicked is?

[Dart]

#include <Misc.au3>

$dll = DllOpen("user32.dll")

Do
    Sleep ( 250 )
Until _IsPressed("01", $dll)
DllClose($dll)

Thanks for your quick reply. Yea, i found this under the help page included in the editor...

I'm sure it would work fine but i was looking for something with which i wouldn't have to get into dll files or include libraries.

I guess that since two experienced coders have not offered a simpler solution, this must be the most simple currently available.

Thank you both for your help,

regards,

Dart

[GEOSoft]

That's what's nice about the UDf, the DLL work is already done for you so you don't have to worry about it.