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defrostedchemist

Post subject: Need help with Script A unpausing Script B and vise versa

Posted: May 21st, 2009, 3:29 am

Joined: September 9th, 2008, 9:41 pm
Posts: 6

Hi, I have a question about using a script to pause or unpause a second script and vise versa.

Basically, I have two scripts that currently work just fine in tandem.
I am looking for a better way to do the pausing and unpausing of the two scripts that does not involve sending keystrokes.
I could try to combine both scripts with use of timers, however, they are already each quite complex and this way works fine.
I would just like if it didnt have to send keystrokes for the tandem scripts to pause each other.
Script A

Code:

;Script A
Loop{
;Long and Boring highly repetitive task
    ;Blah
    ;Blah
    ;Blah
;Send Keystrokes to unpause Script B.
    Send {Shift Down}
    Sleep 50
    Send {F11 Down}
    Sleep 100
    Send {F11 Up}
    Sleep 50
    Send {Shift Up}
    Sleep 100
;Pause Script A.
    Pause,On
}
+F10::Pause,Off

Script B

Code:

;Script B
Loop{
;Short but complex timer and image search based task
    ;BlahBlahBlah
;Send Keystrokes to unpause Script A.
    Send {Shift Down}
    Sleep 50
    Send {F11 Down}
    Sleep 100
    Send {F11 Up}
    Sleep 50
    Send {Shift Up}
    Sleep 100
;Pause Script B.
    Pause,On
}
+F11::Pause,Off

Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advance!

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PausedActivator

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Posted: May 21st, 2009, 11:53 am

The AHK help ! :arrow:

"sending data between scripts"

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defrostedchemist

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Posted: May 22nd, 2009, 8:53 pm

Joined: September 9th, 2008, 9:41 pm
Posts: 6

Thanks for the tip!
I'm still having a bit of trouble though.
So far, I can get Script_B to send a message to Script_A to pause Script_A.
However, once paused, it seems that Script_A will no longer recieve messages and cannot be unpaused by Script_B.

Code:

;Script_A 
Loop{ 
    ;Long and Boring highly repetitive task 
        ;Blah 
        ;Blah 
        ;Blah 
    }
OnMessage(0x4a,"Receive_WM_COPYDATA")
Receive_WM_COPYDATA()
    {
    Pause Toggle
    }

Code:

;Script_B
TargetScriptTitle=Script_A.ahk ahk_class AutoHotkey
SetTitleMatchMode 2
DetectHiddenWindows On
Loop{
    SendMessage, 0x4a, 0, &CopyDataStruct,, %TargetScriptTitle% ;To pause Script_A (Works great!)
    ;Short but complex timer and image search based task 
        ;BlahBlahBlah 
    SendMessage, 0x4a, 0, &CopyDataStruct,, %TargetScriptTitle% ;To unpause Script_A (Will not recieve message)
    ;Sleep some unit of time
    }

The only things I know of that work while a script are paused are hotkeys and hot strings.
Is there anyway to get a script to accept a message while it is paused?
Thanks again!

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Lexikos

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Posted: May 23rd, 2009, 4:27 am

Joined: October 17th, 2006, 4:15 pm
Posts: 7502
Location: Australia

Quote:

However, once paused, it seems that Script_A will no longer recieve messages and cannot be unpaused by Script_B.

Here's why:

Quote:

MaxThreads - This integer is normally omitted, in which case the monitor function is limited to one thread at a time.
Source: AutoHotkey Documentation: OnMessage

Here's a better method, which can be used from Script_B.ahk without any extra code in Script_A.ahk:

Code:

DetectHiddenWindows, On
SetTitleMatchMode, 2
PostMessage, 0x111, 65403,,, Script_A.ahk ahk_class AutoHotkey

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defrostedchemist

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Posted: May 23rd, 2009, 7:21 am

Joined: September 9th, 2008, 9:41 pm
Posts: 6

Wow, that works wonderfully. Thank you for the help.

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