Making a script function without needing to press a key several times? Topic is solved

[Jason Brown]

Hello everyone,

I'm sorry for asking a question that's been asked a million times before, or asking a question that's easy to answer. It feels absurd that I need to apologize for asking a question, but oh well, this is the internet.
I'm attempting to create something that (with the press of only one button such as F9) will move to a part of my screen, left click, move to another part, shift + left click, and repeat.
I somewhat understand the basic components and have them ready to go, but there lies a problem with my code, and it is that I must press the chosen key to start up production (Page Up for me) for every step!
Here is a little example of what I mean.

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PgUp::
    MouseMove, 1284, 505
         ^LButton::Click 1 left
           {Sleep 100}
	     MouseMove, 2376,770
return

Escape::
ExitApp
Return

All I'm trying to do in this sample is have it preform those three actions (movemouse, left click, movemouse) at the press of one button, Page Up. Instead, I'm being forced to press Page Up for every step.
Does anyone have a possible solution for this?

Additionally, if any part of this script is wrong or could be improved/cleaned, please, please, please let me know. I honestly have no idea what I'm doing and feel like I've been cast into deep water and told to swim.

[Hellbent]

This assumes that your code as-is is correct and works.

It also assumes that this is all your script is doing. If you have other hotkeys etc you will need another approach.

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#SingleInstance,Force
Pause,On
Loop 
	{
		;replace the tooltip with your code
		tooltip,% A_Index
	}

return

pgup::Pause

ESC::ExitApp

[chthonicastro]

What you are asking for is slightly different than what you appear to have written. Is this a click and drag, or a click+unclick, move, and click again?

You should actually Send discrete mouselicks, rather than having one hotkey call another hotkey that is activated by the mouseclick, as your script currently does. Try:

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PgUp::

	Click, 1284, 505		;you can also format this as Send {click, 1284, 505} like in the last step
	Sleep 100
	Send +{Click, 2376, 660}

return