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silentblood · Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 36

Is it possible to send keystrokes to a specific program. For example, I play Shadowbane I duel log on one machine, could I write it into my script to only send keystrokes to just one client, so I could keep it minimized and play on other account. To do this I know for sure I will make two different directorys and name the Shadowbane EXEs to different names. I know it can be done just not sure hows it done with AHk.
Also great work on AHK guys this is a great free program better than some you have to pay for great works and keep it up. I am gonna be getting alot of the macroers on sb to start using this app.

Oh forgot to ask something is there anyway to hot key the scripts to activate on command. I think the answer would be to put a looping program that looks for certain keystroke then activates desired script name its directory is that close?

silentblood · Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 36

Ok I answermyself on the very last question +t:: would cause the sscript to launch when shift+t is keyed.

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10463

jamestr · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 96 Location: Connecticut USA

if you have the same program running under 2 different names,
you shold be able to identify them using window ID.

http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/WinGet.htm

silentblood · Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 36

Ok I am getting most things you guys are telling me. This is one that is not making much sense. Someone Show me example of sending keystrokes just to shadowbane. Its name is sb.exe. I need to be able to send keystrokes only it will recieve.

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10463

The examples I gave above are the best ways I know how to do it (if it's possible at all with this particular game). You'll need to find out the title, class, or ID of the target window to use those examples. Most of that info can be discovered with Window Spy, which can be launched from the tray menu. If it's a full screen game, create a hotkey that runs WinGetClass and/or WinGetTitle when you press a hotkey and puts the text on the clipboard:

#z::WinGetClass, clipboard, A

Then press the hotkey while in the game, and the class name should now be on the clipboard.

If you have two windows that have the same title, text, and class, you'll need to get their IDs with WinGet as jamestr mentioned above.

Of course, you can also use the Send command to send keystrokes directly to the active window.

silentblood · Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 36

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WinGet, active_id, ID, A
WinGetClass, this_class, ahk_id %active_id%
WinGetTitle, this_title, ahk_id %active_id%
MsgBox, 0, , id - %active_id%`nclass - %this_class%`nName - %this_title%`n

Ok I ran that and it gave me the following information

id-0x80050
class-opengl
name-shadowbane

Now I know this is proably a dumb question but what do I do with that information.

beardboy · Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 444 Location: SLC, Utah

If you have two instances of shadowbane running you are going to have to decide which one to send the key strokes to. I have a script that ends up having two windows that are the same name and same class so I also had to seperate them by ID. Here is an example of how to send seperate key strokes to the different windows.

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10463

silentblood · Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 36

ControlSend,,%Stance% , Shadowbane

That is a copy of the command I am using now it does pretty much what I want it to using that. Only thing it did so far I didn't like was I was on the website called shadowbane and it froze my macro till I left the site. Any Ideas.

jamestr · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 96 Location: Connecticut USA

you want to distinguish between the website vs the game?

(both named shadowbane)?

you should be able to identify the website browser window and then use a ifwinactive command.

ifwinactive, Shadowbane -

the '-' makes the window unique

silentblood · Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 36

Ok I got it working just how I needed it to. Here is how I ended up doing it just for reference.

WinGet,SBID, ID,A

This is outside of my infinite loop in the top of my macro so it only checks once when you first start the macro. You must be in the the client you want to bind the macro to when you hotkey start the macro. It will then bind to the current SB Client windows ID number. You can then use the following to do direct input to the windows ID number.

ControlSend,,%CombatKey% , ahk_id %SBID%

This enters whatever the person has set as there combat key in the ini file and sends it to binded client. You can do as many client ahk binds as you want just got to do one at a time.

jantzen05 · Joined: 20 Aug 2004 Posts: 8

I am trying to make a macro like yours, is it possible that I could get yours?