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The following extensions to the Send command would be helpful, I think.

1) "Send blabla{wait n}more blabla" where {wait n} waits for n milliseconds

2) "Send blabla{setkeydelay n}more blabla" where {setkeydelay n} sets a temporary delay of n

Background: I have several long Send strings that simply don't work correctly with a delay of 0 or 10. OTOH I do not want to send other long Send strings that are perfectly fine with a delay of 0 in the excruciatingly slow 20 or 50 mode.

Thomas

A wishlist topic.

Probably. But I am new to AHK so it's quite possible that I overlooked the obvious solution: the post is a wishlist item and a question at the same time.

I take it that there is no such feature in AHK as it is right now?

There is no such feature yet, but it seems like a good suggestion. However, I wonder if it's worth it because {wait n} doesn't really save much typing. It would be nearly as easy to provide your own Sleep:
Send Text
Sleep 50
Send More text

As for having SetKeyDelay supported directly inside the Send command, it seems a little awkward in syntax, while not saving that much typing either. Also, you might not know that each thread retains its own value of SetKeyDelay. This means that a given hotkey can do SetKeyDelay 10 without fear of affecting the rest of the script; that is, it does not need to restore the original setting prior to returning.

Further comments are welcome.

Saving a few keystrokes is not at all the point here.

The point is that a Send string with embedded {wait} or {setkeydelay} commands is a sweet one-liner and as such is something I can use inside my filemenu script, whereas your or any other code snippet isn't and can't.

Never mind, I will at some point have a look at the C++ source myself. If I can read it and if I can figure out a way to put in stuff of my own without too much trouble (Diff is my friend) I may just add that feature on my own.

Thomas

I haven't been paying attention well enough to understand why a multi-line snippet can't be used in place of a single-line one. It's probably because of the novelty of your script's configuration file. If so, that helps clarify it.

I have a script (see over in the Scripts section) which reads a text file and dynamically builds menus. The "problem" is that I can only do very limited things in the menu handler: I need everything to be contained in one line with which I then feed either the Send or the Run command.

The whole thing would be much more powerful (and easier) if we had the ability to execute the contents of a variable -- but we've been there already, I think

@Chris: I've had a look at the AHK source code and I think I can provide you with a code snippet of less than ten lines that should implement a {wait nnn}, as outlined further up. Would you be willing to include this feature?

The thing is I can't actually do the patch here because I have no makefile for the sources (I am on the older VC6 and I never use the IDE, only makefiles). I could try to create one, sure, but not now. (Or do you happen to have one lying around somewhere? That would be, of course, much better.)

I don't have any make-files for VC6. But feel free to mail your source to support@autohotkey.com, preferably with a short explanation to remind me of what it does and its expected benefits.

Thanks.