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I want to create an emergency hotkey which exits all or selected threads but keeps the script alive

so far my understanding is that Exit just kills its on thread and ExitApp kills the whole script - any idea (maybe a PostMessage)? Thanx!

Although there's no easy way to do this, you could assign a hotkey to pause and unpause all threads:

^!p::Pause ; Press it once to pause all threads, and again to unpause.

If you still need a way to kill all other threads, probably the only solution is to set a global variable that each thread is responsible for checking periodically. Each thread should exit when it sees the variable change to a pre-arranged stop-signal.

You could try the Reload command for stopping all threads

The only problem with that is if you have any dynamic variables they would be cleared out.
Allthough a way around that would be to write the all the values of all your variables to a txt file before executing the reload command and then having your script read the file on load.

Just a thought

Hi,

maybe this will work:
You create everey thread in an own ahk file. Than you write a launcher script which will execute all these scripts. And every pre-selected script react on the hotkey.

NiWi.

That makes it seem like the puase command affects all threads. Does it? I didn't think so...

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