can't get ControlSend to work

[Krypto888]

Hi guys,

I'm trying to get ControlSend to work so that keyboard keys are pressed when my .exe is not selected (not in foreground) but whatever I try, the script stops working if I click away from the exe

This is what I have:

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ControlSend,,my.exe

#Persistent
SetTimer, PressTheKey, 500
Return


#o::Pause ; 


IfWinActive,   my.exe

PressTheKey:

if (WinActive("ahk_exe my.exe")) 

{
	Send, {space down}
	Send, {F4 down}
	Sleep 10
	Send, {F4 up}
	Send, {z down}
	Sleep 10
	Send, {z up}
	
}
Return

If someone could help me it would be great, I tried reading about ControlSend and ControlClick but I find it hard to get it to work

[RiRi Lopez]

Hi guys,

I'm trying to get ControlSend to work so that keyboard keys are pressed when my .exe is not selected (not in foreground) but whatever I try, the script stops working if I click away from the exe

This is what I have:

Code: Select all

ControlSend,,my.exe

#Persistent
SetTimer, PressTheKey, 500
Return


#o::Pause ; 


IfWinActive,   my.exe

PressTheKey:

if (WinActive("ahk_exe my.exe")) 

{
	Send, {space down}
	Send, {F4 down}
	Sleep 10
	Send, {F4 up}
	Send, {z down}
	Sleep 10
	Send, {z up}
	
}
Return

If someone could help me it would be great, I tried reading about ControlSend and ControlClick but I find it hard to get it to work

my notes here

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ControlSend,,my.exe ; you placed this in the auto execute section, and it does nothing 

#Persistent
SetTimer, PressTheKey, 500
Return


#o::Pause ; 


IfWinActive,   my.exe  ; nothing calls this 

PressTheKey:

if (WinActive("ahk_exe my.exe")) 

{
	Send, {space down}
	Send, {F4 down}
	Sleep 10
	Send, {F4 up}
	Send, {z down}
	Sleep 10
	Send, {z up}
	
}
Return

I think you need to tell us more what the goal is, i am confused.

[Krypto888]

I think you need to tell us more what the goal is, i am confused.

Hi, sorry!

I need a very simple thing, my goal is to be able to hold 'space' all the time, while pressing F4 every second or so as well as pressing Z every second or so. I also added 'win+o' to pause and unpause it. This has to work only on a specified .exe program, so that I can still use my PC while it's working, but also so that the script works on that .exe when the window is not active. So let's say I want to run the script to press the 3 keys on my.exe while still being able to do other things on the computer. As for now, everything works for me except when I want to do other things on my computer, then the script stops working on the .exe

[Krypto888]

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[Krypto888]

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[swagfag]

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#Persistent
SetTimer, PressTheKey, 500
Return

target := "ahk_exe Wow.exe"

#o::Pause

PressTheKey:
{
	ControlSend, , {Space Down}, % target
	ControlSend, , {F4 Down}, % target
	Sleep, 10
	ControlSend, , {F4 Up}, % target
	ControlSend, , {z Down}, % target
	Sleep, 10
	ControlSend, , {z Up}, % target
return
}

[divanebaba]

Hi.

ControlSend [, Control, Keys, WinTitle, WinText, ExcludeTitle, ExcludeText]

As description for Control-parameter, help-file says: "If this parameter is blank or omitted, the target window's topmost control will be used."
Another thing is, that it seems, that you have used Window-Title called "my.exe" as key-parameter instead for WinTitle-parameter.

[Krypto888]

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#Persistent
SetTimer, PressTheKey, 500
Return

target := "ahk_exe Wow.exe"

#o::Pause

PressTheKey:
{
	ControlSend, , {Space Down}, % target
	ControlSend, , {F4 Down}, % target
	Sleep, 10
	ControlSend, , {F4 Up}, % target
	ControlSend, , {z Down}, % target
	Sleep, 10
	ControlSend, , {z Up}, % target
return
}

This is not working at all, I changed the wow.exe to my exe and nothing is happening

[Krypto888]

Hi.

ControlSend [, Control, Keys, WinTitle, WinText, ExcludeTitle, ExcludeText]

As description for Control-parameter, help-file says: "If this parameter is blank or omitted, the target window's topmost control will be used."
Another thing is, that it seems, that you have used Window-Title called "my.exe" as key-parameter instead for WinTitle-parameter.

Sorry, I have no idea what any of that means

[Hildagard K]

Hi.

ControlSend [, Control, Keys, WinTitle, WinText, ExcludeTitle, ExcludeText]

As description for Control-parameter, help-file says: "If this parameter is blank or omitted, the target window's topmost control will be used."
Another thing is, that it seems, that you have used Window-Title called "my.exe" as key-parameter instead for WinTitle-parameter.

Sorry, I have no idea what any of that means

"If this parameter is blank or omitted, the target window's topmost control will be used"

If you do controlsend, edit1, b, WinTitle it will send to edit1, if you leave out edit1 it will send to the targets top most control

"you have used Window-Title called "my.exe" as key-parameter instead for WinTitle-parameter."

Read up on WinTitle

[swagfag]

Run as admin. Try increasing the delay between send events

[divanebaba]

Hi.
Help-file says, concerning for control-parameter:"If this parameter is ahk_parent, the keystrokes will be sent directly to the target window instead of one of its controls"
So try to add ahk_parent as parameter for all your ControlSend-commands, like below:

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ControlSend, ahk_parent, {Space Down}, % target
...

As I don't know anything about your my.exe I can only give support like a bad doctor, giving you random pills to try.