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[spork]

hi im trying to get battlefield 2142 crouch to work when you press the button the guy stays crouched like bf2 and now he dosent i tred many many scripts that dont work..someone please help me...this is what i got and it needs help

thanks

[holomind]

you should try it similar to this:

http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=82530#82530

[spork]

i was lookin at that and came up with this ..but it dosent work..
i can use the click feature becase its a button not a mouse button

c::
Send, {c down}
KeyWait, c, D ; wait here until next c (=toggle)
Send, {c up}
Return

when the key is pressed nothing happens no letter appears and in game in fact it crouches but dosent toggle..

[holomind]

i guess your problem is, that c is sent only once. one c down.
but you maybe want to have repeated sends of c ?

[spork]

humm..nope htat dosent work either..
the goal im trying to accomplish is simply that the c button toggles
on and off
ie: up and down
like i push c and the button stays down so i can crouch
until i push it again so that i can come back up from crouching..
right now its one fluic motion horrible...lol

[holomind]

i dont have more ideas, perhaps you should get a little rock and put it on the key. that would be fair cheating in the game

[spork]

lmao..the mean thing is..it did work at one point in fact but the space bar was messed up...i would push space and it would then toggle crouch..way messed up i dont know how that happend it was trippy..made me so mad because iwas useing the new version i reverted back becase it does not work right for me the program crashes

[Lanser]

Hmmn not sure why it isn't working for you know, I had setup a crouch toggle method for BF2 and it still works in BF2142, initially I was using the toggle on/off method but I decided the default Crouch operation became handy in BF2 as well. So instead my method acts normal when I press and hold 'Ctrl' but if I double tap within a specified time window a loop is run to press and hold Ctrl, simply press and release Ctrl again to break out of Crouch. Maybe you could adapt it to your purposes. I've already posted this some time back in the main BF2 thread ...

[Laszlo]

Two things to try: add $ to the hotkey name, so the hotkey won't be triggered with the sent "c", and KeyWait until the "c" key is released (not until it is pressed again).

[slomz]

Also laszlo, add a GetKeyState in the hotkey. No BF2 macros work without it as I have come to learn.

[spork]

thanks guys ill do some testing here on all that will let ya know what i come up with..

[spork]

[Laszlo]

This looks functionally equivalent. Does not it work?

[holomind]

@lazlo: i guess the difference is that in the one example with "loop" the key is sent repeatedly, and in your example only one c-down is sent.
if you have a windows programm this might work as the key is repeated automatically. but perhaps the game does not recognize the c-down up but only checks for c-pressed ?

this means my example with settimer would also work if you change settimer ,...,20 to settimer, ...,0

but this looks like an endless-loop... (100%cpu ?!)

there is a difference in keywait and GetKeyState

a) Keywait. waits at this line in the programm until the "watched" key is pressed. like a "pause" (or sleep until key is pressed)
b) getkeystate only looks into the keybuffer if the key is pressed "now" (realtime) and returns immediately.

so they are not "functionally the same"

but using this loop thing is an endless loop and "bad" in my opinion (when there is no "sleep" in between as the cpu is constantly watching the keystate 100%cpu, which is nonsense.

my example would then look like this

[slomz]