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[aDot]

Hi,

I have little programming experience and stumbled over the following problem that I cannot resolve myself:

I would like to write a script that can be started with one of the function keys, that is looping a certain command with a specific sleep time. So far no problem, but here is my challenge:

The loop should stop if the user presses another function key, else it should continue to loop endless.

Is that possible? If yes, could you give me a hint on that?


Thanks from a very beginner.

aDot

[BoBo]

E.g the F12 key:

[BoBo]

shouldn't abort the script at all, correct ?!

~F12::break

[BoBo]

Well, seems to be complete nonsense what I've written above
Sorry.

[aDot]

Thanks a lot for the quick help - will try it tonight.

[beardboy]

To not kill the script, just the running loop you could do something like this:

[silentblood]

If I am reading this right will it only stop once it reaches the if command in the script so it would only pause once it got to that if command?

[Chris]

That's right, but you can repeat the same IF statement in multiple places throughout the body of the loop -- notably after any operation that takes a long time -- if you need the stop key to be more immediate.