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Sorry i'm new here and just havent found how do this ridiculously simple task... all i need to do is to periodically click on a specific program button.. this button is always on the same location i only need a script that clicks on it about every 5 mins or so.. also the window that holds the button might be minimized some times so it would need to activate/maximize it too, i guess...

Please help a newbie here

If you want something like this you will need to provide the title of the window and the coordinates of the button. Both of which can be found using AutoIt3 Window Spy which is included in the AHK installation. You could also find the control ID of the button through window spy instead of clicking it would be a controlclick. Then you wouldn't need to activate or maximize the window, it would activate the button "behind the scenes"

Thanks for replying!
Well about that i do have the coordinates of the button and the window title, though the title varies a little bit some times (can use a wildcard there?)...

For the control thing this what i could get from the button with Window Spy:

ClassNN: Button34
Text: 再読込 (it's japanese)
Color: 0xE7EFF7 (Blue=E7 Green=EF Red=F7)

I would really appreciate if you or someone could give me an example script of how this could be done (don't need to have the real coordinates/title i would fill in those myself)

Start -> Programs -> AutoHotKey -> AutoScriptWriter (recorder)

Record what you want clicked. Save the script & then modify for a timer!

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~BigVent

This is fine to get started but he mentioned that sometimes the window is minimized and may need to be restored.

I guess you could record it with the window minimized that way it would maximize the window every time. I don't know, it works but it's ugly and unreliable. It's up to you, you can either use the quick way or write it and have it be covert and not interrupt your other processes. Meaning you will still have control of your mouse and screen.

If you want it to run in the backround you could do this:


The 1000 is 1000 mS therefore one second, that means the button will be clicked every second. You can change that to the time you need. If you change the red text to the title of the window containing the button then it should work. You can get the window title from window spy as well. Also, so you are aware, the NA means it will not activate the window so you won't even know it's doing it but it will be. I prefer to write all my programs this way if possible, otherwise every time it went to click it would open the window and click the button. This way, you can work on your computer normally and the mouse isn't gong to go crazy.

I got it working!
At first i tried the loop that ribbs mentioned but it crashed my program... then i found that the value after the loop command is the number of times it will execute not the time between iterations so i inserted the sleep command that BigVent mentioned and works great!



Thanks for the help guys!

oh man! I'm sorry, I put loop, 1000. That's going to loop 1000 times, for some reason I put that instead of Sleep 1000. You got it right but in case you want to change it, you can remove the 1000 so it will loop until you turn it off. Otherwise, it will loop 1000 times and stop. (that would be after 6000 seconds or 100 minutes)