AutoHotkey Community

[Seal]

I faced a typical problem with a key delay on a mile long Send keys, like

SendKeys 100
!a::Send, Merry had a little lamb her fleece was as while as snow....

I want a display to mimic an auto typing by the computer for a school project. I call the hot key from notepad and it runs as expected. Now before it can finish, click on another notepad window and the output goes there instead (why is the mouse click allowed before AHK has finished?). Also if I clicked on Windows Media Player instead, all kinds of funny things happen there because of the varius keys being send to it.

I use AHK ver. 1.0.15 and Win XP (no SP)

[beardboy]

You can use BlockInput, On to turn off user input and then user BlockInput, Off to turn it back on once your Send commands have finished. On NT/2000/XP you can always use Ctrl+Alt+Del to cancel the BlockInput if need be.

thanks,
beardboy

[Beastmaster]

Could you rename the target notepad window (e.g. by opening an already existing, therefore named - but empty txt file) and "assign" the keyboard/send action to this specific window ?

[silentblood]

I can't remember the exact commands I used but i had my game macro scripts get the windows ID of the active wind then used controlsend with the stored variable with that ID and from then on that macro will only send to that windows ID. I am at work or I would post the commands.

[seal]

Thanks. Blockinput seems to be a working solution to my problem.