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[ahk_man]

I was wondering how reliable are the scripts being generated by Autohotkey? I realize sometimes I've written a script that I know works numberous time and one day it just crash on me. For example, sometimes when I click the hotkey to start the script, the script does not run like it should. Also, when sometimes I use the Send command to send like:
Send, abc

Most of the time it will send abc, but there are times it only send ab, bc, or those variations. I know about the use of SetKeyDelay, however I have to open up my script and edit the SetKeyDelay to increase the value.

[beardboy]

Do you have an example of your script that we may look at? You might also want to use BlockInput to prevent user input from interfering with AutoHotkey commands.

thanks,
beardboy

[Beastmaster]

Something which looks quite similar happened with my script.
It should send a date-/timestamp to an inputfield within a form.
As this script runs 24/7 (an AHK stress test ) it looks that the string variable is loosing/changing some content after some time.

2004/06/28 23:59:59
becomes
2004.06.28 (can't remember if the colon's at the timestamp are changing as well )

it's swapping the slash / character (the english date separator) to the one which was formerly assigned (based on the local keyboard setting, it was a dot).

a second field at this form should be filled afterwards but the string variable (which holds the path of the file which should be processed) is loosing its backslashes.

C: myfolder mysubfolder myfile.csv

[Chris]

The next time that happens, please use the main window's View > List Variables item to see what the variable actually contains. If a variable changes on its own, please let me know.

I suspect this has to do with a keyboard layout issue, however. It might also be caused if the Send command occurs while a modifier key such as Win or Ctrl is held down or stuck down.

[Chris]