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[Joshuas]

Hello!
I'm trying to make ahk script to spam in game chat. The issue I have if I close the window of the game the script isn't spamming in game.
I added the #IfWinActive and still isn't working, also If I want to add for example #21 which code is it?

My code looks like this:

#IfWinActive Game name
SetTitleMatchMode,3

F1::
Toggle := !Toggle
If (!Toggle)
return
loop {
word = my text
send %word%{enter}
sleep, 8000
}
Return
F12:: Pause

Thank you in advance.

[evilC]

That is not how a toggle is done.

1) You will not be able to stop it, because once it enters the loop, it makes no check on the state of Toggle

2) You do not have EITHER
#MaxThreadsPerHotkey set to > 1
OR
A SetTimer to allow the hotkey to finish.

You need to fix your basic issues before trying to limit it to only work with a specific window.

[Joshuas]

That is not how a toggle is done.

1) You will not be able to stop it, because once it enters the loop, it makes no check on the state of Toggle

2) You do not have EITHER
#MaxThreadsPerHotkey set to > 1
OR
A SetTimer to allow the hotkey to finish.

You need to fix your basic issues before trying to limit it to only work with a specific window.

Ok, how I can fix the basics first?? the script is spamming how it is..only the issue I have is with the window, like I said if I close the window do not spam anymore.

Need to add something else??

F1::
#MaxThreadsPerHotkey > 1
#IfWinActive Game name
SetTitleMatchMode,2
loop {
word = my text
send %word%{enter}
sleep, 8000
}
Return
F12:: Pause

Thanks

[evilC]

#MaxThreadsPerHotkey > 1 Invalid syntax. I said it must be greater than 1, not to put "> 1" as the value...
Seeing as you use the syntax Toggle := !Toggle, I am guessing you read a thread about how to make a toggle.
Removing the change of the toggle value and removing any check for the value of Toggle is making things worse, not better.

I also said to remove the window detection until you have the basics working. You are only making it harder to get the basics working by having the window detection in there.

If a script is doing nothing, then adding an IfWinActive will never, ever fix it. It will break it more.

[evilC]

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#MaxThreadsPerHotkey 2
#IfWinActive Game name
F1::
Toggle := !Toggle 
loop {
If (!Toggle)
return
word = my text 
send %word%{enter} 
sleep, 8000
}
Return 

[Joshuas]

Is ok, is working..but the detection of the window doesn't.

[evilC]

What is the actual #IfWinActive command you are using, and what are the names of the app (Best to post a screenshot of Window Spy)

[Joshuas]

I don't have Windows Sky installed, this is the screenshot taken from Tast Manager:



I used #IfWinActive Revelation Online and also added the whole name that you see in task manager.

[swagfag]

Why are you so focused on #IfWinActive and why are you using SetTitleMatchMode, 3 if presumably the title of your game window changes constantly(I don't know what Snowpine, MrGold, @2645629, 89234752897 mean, but I figure those aren't constant values)?

All #IfWinActive is going to do is enable your defined hotkey if the window is currently in focus. From what I gathered reading your initial post, you'd like to send shit to a background/minimized game window. Use ControlSend instead. You can keep the #IfWinActive directive, but do so only if it has a purpose. If you're just adding stuff on a trial-error basis, you wont get anywhere in a reasonable amount of time.

[evilC]

Window Spy comes with AHK, so you do have it.

[evilC]

you'd like to send shit to a background/minimized game window. Use ControlSend instead. You can keep the #IfWinActive directive

Surely sending input to an inactive window and only triggering the hotkey if the window is active are mutually exclusive?

[swagfag]

Yeah, you're right, they are.

[Joshuas]

Why are you so focused on #IfWinActive and why are you using SetTitleMatchMode, 3 if presumably the title of your game window changes constantly(I don't know what Snowpine, MrGold, @2645629, 89234752897 mean, but I figure those aren't constant values)?

All #IfWinActive is going to do is enable your defined hotkey if the window is currently in focus. From what I gathered reading your initial post, you'd like to send shit to a background/minimized game window. Use ControlSend instead. You can keep the #IfWinActive directive, but do so only if it has a purpose. If you're just adding stuff on a trial-error basis, you wont get anywhere in a reasonable amount of time.

Snowpine is the current server I'm logged, the rest is more likely the location. I used already SetTitleMatchMode, 3 and isn't working, is only work settled on 2 figure it changes that's why.

I tried with ControlSend as well, the same issue, if the window is minimized isn't "spamming" in game.

I used something like:

#ifwinactive Revelation Online

SetTitleMatchMode,2
return
loop {
ControlSend, , MY TEXT, Revelation Online
Sleep, 100
}

[evilC]

Many games simply do not react to input when they are not active, let alone minimized.

[swagfag]

Then you'd need to try out different send methods, dllcall, sendmessage, using a bit of delay, etc. If nothing else works, it might be simply cause by the fact that your game doesn't accept input, while not focused.

[Joshuas]

ok thanks! One more thing, how I can make the macro to type symbol like # ?

[evilC]

Does Send {#} not work?