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[AiKscroll]

I wrote a script that essentially has two keys do the same thing, pause the script. But to unpause the script I nust press the key that was not pressed to pause the script. Is this supposed to happen?

[jonny]

That's because Pause doesn't affect the whole script, only the currently running thread. As a side-effect of this, though, any threads that the current thread interrupted will have to wait until it is unpaused and finishes, so essentially you've paused the whole script at that point. What's happening here is that, when you press one of the hotkeys, it runs until it finds Pause, at which point it pauses, unsurprisingly. So that hotkey's thread is frozen, and the thread it interrupted - the infinite msgbox loop - is also effectively frozen. Now what happens when you press that key again? AutoHotkey sees that the hotkey is already running, so it does nothing, unless you set #MaxThreadsPerHotkey higher than 1. The other hotkey has no problem running, and when it gets to Pause it unpauses the underlying thread.

So, to fix it, you need to set #MaxThreadsPerHotkey to 2: