LShift spammer

[DETERMINED]

I'd love to have a very simple yet very useful macro for me :
Basically as long as, say caps lock is on, let is spam LShift 10 times per second
Do you think you could make me that macro ? It'd be awesome !

[Nwb]

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SetTimer, Check, 0
return

Check:
If (GetKeyState("CapsLock", "T")) {
Send, {LShift}
Sleep 100
}
return 

[Rohwedder]

Hallo,
1. #Persistent needed.
2. A timer with zero period and Sleep ??
better:

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#Persistent
SetTimer, Check, 100
return

Check:
If (GetKeyState("CapsLock", "T")) {
Send, {LShift}
}
return

[Nwb]

Hallo,
1. #Persistent needed.
2. A timer with zero period and Sleep ??
better:

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#Persistent
SetTimer, Check, 100
return

Check:
If (GetKeyState("CapsLock", "T")) {
Send, {LShift}
}
return

Huh why is persistent required?
And does it make a difference that settimer is at 0 and rather there is sleep under the label? It's the same thing right?

[Rohwedder]

Hallo,
#persistent is required because the script contains only a timer but not hotkeys, hotstrings, or any use of OnMessage() or Gui.
Just try it without!
A Sleep must be made by the currend thread. Waiting within the period of a timer, not!
https://autohotkey.com/docs/misc/Threads.htm

[Nwb]

Hallo,
#persistent is required because the script contains only a timer but not hotkeys, hotstrings, or any use of OnMessage() or Gui.
Just try it without!
A Sleep must be made by the currend thread. Waiting within the period of a timer, not!
https://autohotkey.com/docs/misc/Threads.htm

Huh the script worked fine with my version too?
How would the script behave if #persistent was not written? Because I tried both your suggestions and my script and I didn't see a difference..

But does it make a difference whether the sleep was in the timer or the thread in this case? Because it won't execute it again until the thread is finished. Does it like take more resource or something? I didn't think it would make a difference..

[Rohwedder]

Hallo,
here the script ends immediately without #Persistent.
Compare:

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#Persistent
SetTimer, A, 300
SetTimer, B, 300
Return
A:
	a:=!a
	ToolTip, %a%  %b%
Return
B:
	b:=!b
Return

and

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#Persistent
SetTimer, A, 0
SetTimer, B, 0
Return
A:
	a:=!a
	ToolTip, %a%  %b%
	Sleep, 300
Return
B:
	b:=!b
	Sleep, 300
Return