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mccoy178 · Guest

Hello. I am from the www.byoac.com forums. We are using AHK in a script to help with the games we play. We build arcade machines, and we are using a program that when "P" is pressed, the game is paused, a small program that shows what the controls are pops up, and when "P" is pressed again, the game resumes. The problem we are having is that when "P" is pressed to pause the game, the game pauses and the controls pop up properly; when "P" is pressed to exit the controls viewer and resume the game, the game remains paused. Please take a look at the script and see what you think. I have tried replacing sleep with StatusBarWait 250, and nothing still. I don't know if the command is in the wrong place or what is going on. Thank you so much for the help.

The Script:

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10474

When you create a tilde hotkey such as ~P, the P keystroke passes through to the active window the moment you physically press it. Because of this, there might be no need for the following line, which sends another P keystroke:

Send,{p down}{p up}

If that doesn't help, you can try opening the script's main window via its tray icon. By default, it displays the lines most recently executed, which can help debug a script. You can also select View > Key History from the menu bar to find out exactly what keystrokes are being sent.

Guest · Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 1:10 am Post subject:

The problem we are having is that when "P" is pressed the second time to close the controls program and unpause the game, the game is not getting the "P" keystroke. I believe some sort of delay is needed, I just don't know where. Please watch these videos and see if you understand what I mean. Again, thanks for the help.

http://media.putfile.com/Script1

http://media.putfile.com/Script2

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10474

toralf · Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 3841 Location: Bremen, Germany

Hi, I have restructure the code, I hope it helps. Please give it a try

mccoy178 · Guest

Thank you for the script. It does the same thing as the other. Two things, first, when a game is started, the j5 viewer (control Program), is started by the same app. that started the game. When the game is launched, it is behind a blank screen for J5. Is there a way to fix that? Second, I dont understand why the game is not picking up the "P" other than until "P" is released, the j5 screen does not disappear. Could this effect how the game is getting the instructed "p"? It is wierd because it seems to receive it about a third of the time. Thanks again for all your help. By the way, this program is being used for private use ony. I don't want you guys to think this has anything commercial to do with it.

toralf · Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 3841 Location: Bremen, Germany

Hí McCoy,
I have problems to understand what you wrote.
But maybe it is time you start to play with the game and learn more about AHK. It is not that difficult.
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Ciao
toralf

mccoy178 · Guest

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10474

It's probably a keystroke timing issue, or perhaps the keystroke is being sent at the wrong time (when the game isn't prepared to receive it).

But you've probably tried all kinds of delays and such. If so, you might want to try ControlSend. If that doesn't work you might try Rajat's SendMessage Tutorial to determine what message the game receives (if any) when you unpause it. You could then send that message via SendMessage.