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Back 20 years into the last century when I learned to program Subroutines lay dormant unless called. Here is does not. I set up a subroutine:



and if it is the first thing in the code sequence it runs without being called, however if I put it behind a hotkey code like this:



it doesn't run. I did stumble across this workaround as I wrote this but it seems to me that subroutines should lie dormant just as hotkeys do, until called.

TIA

Jet

AutoHotkey scripts are structured as follows:

- AutoExecute section (runs until it encounters a Return)
- Subroutines and functions

Since your scripts first Return is the Return after the subroutine (btw: no braces needed), the subroutine will be executed.

Example



Hope this helps

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Thanks for the quick reply.

So just place a return after the stuff I want to autoexecute and all is well?

will I have to remove it should I place something with a return in front of it or will the old return just get ignored?

Thanks,

extra returns are ignored. If this does not answer your question, please post again with an example.

Should a moderator move this to Ask for Help?

It is not really a bug.

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Probably so,

Thanks

The reason is that subroutines in AutoHotkey are not like functions without a return value. They are more like bookmarks for goto/gosub type commands/events. Unlike functions, code execution will fall into subroutines and continue.