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I've edited to fit my own needs the Client side of the pair of socket scripts that everyone seems to be using

To incorporate this into my main 'always running' script, i need the script to not exit when an error occurs or when the socket is closed from the server

what i need to know is if i need to change any of the used variables to their initialized values and if i need to call DllCall("Ws2_32\WSACleanup") after an error or after the server closes the socket or both?

FYI, the purpose of this 'part' of my script is to check my pop3 server for new mail every 2 minutes or so using a timer
while my computer is idle, this will either cease or execute much less frequently...

Q #2, what is the most efficient way someone has come up with to react to my computer going idle and becoming un-idle?

Q #3, is there a more efficient way to get the current script HWND than what i found in the socket script?

O/T: this being my first post here, I feel obliged to express my strong gratitude for this wonderful piece of freeware
i've been using an outdated freeware Girder and (regrettedly) only recently switched to AHK and I have to say that this program has made me very, very happy

This will check if you are idle

When you say more efficient way of getting the Hwnd, you mean in less lines?

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Zed Gecko explains in (a reply in) the thread you linked to how to prevent the script from handling the FD_CLOSE event, or to change which function handles it. As an alternative, it is possible to determine which event was received (in ReceiveData() or whatever function handles the notification message):I think the script normally does not differentiate between READ and CLOSE - it attempts to read either way, and exits when the read fails.
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, but if you want to reconnect after disconnecting, you'll most likely need to go through the initialization process again. For instance, WSAAsyncSelect() would need to be called to set up the notification message for each socket/connection. "Variables" like FD_READ and FD_CLOSE always have the same value, so needn't be reinitialized. I think the only variables that actually change are the ones whose values are returned by function calls (e.g. "socket".)
WSACleanup is normally used to easily close sockets and clean up resources on exit.

that answered #'s 1 and 2, thanx much