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[savage]

Coasting on the wave of motivation that resulted from my little translation doohicky, when I got back from work I sat down and finally polished off a script I've been using for a while, though I'm not sure if it will be all that useful for anyone .

I run a dual monitor rig, and I play games. I almost always have a console window open on one monitor while I'm playing. Unfortunately, to get to this thing that I can see right in front of me, I have to minimize the game. As you may know, most 3d games don't like to be minimized, so I wrote this script to allow me to type into the console window from within games (or anything for that matter). After some refining it now echos character by character, rather than line by line, and you can backspace. Basically hit the key, do your thing, than hit escape to jump out of the proxy. Sexy.

The only problem is that shift is reaaaally dodgy, and rarely works. I'd like a little help on getting that to work, if anyone can offer some insight.

[Chris]

[savage]

That test script worked fine. I think the problem is Input not picking up the shift key correctly the way I have the loop set up.

On second thought, if I turn on capslock, then start the proxy and hold down a key, it shows up some caps, some not like so: OOOOOoooOOooOOooOO

[Chris]

I tried your proxy script on my system and couldn't get it to produce unexpected capitalization regardless of the combination of shifted or unshifted keys I typed. Still, it doesn't surprise me that ControlSend fails to reliably reproduce the shift state -- perhaps especially when sending to the command prompt -- since others on the AutoIt forum have mentioned similar behavior.

I did notice that the Input command does not allow you to change the state of Capslock (and probably other such keys) during an invisible input, which is probably something that should be changed.

[savage]