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How to loop a limited number of times

 
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leuce



Joined: 17 May 2006
Posts: 23
Location: Johannesburg, ZA
PostPosted: Wed May 17, 2006 7:46 pm    Post subject: How to loop a limited number of times Reply with quote
G'day

This may seem like a stupid question, but I can't get it to work. I have a variable called k1, which contains the number 50. I want a loop to loop 50 times (in other words, k1 times). How do I do this?

I have tried, unsuccessfully, the following:

Code:

k3 = %k1%
Loop
{
Send, {tab}
Sleep, 50
k3 -= 1
if k3 < 0
break
}
MsgBox, The End


Code:

Loop, k1
{
Send, {tab}
Sleep, 50
}
MsgBox, The End


Code:

Loop k1
{
Send, {tab}
Sleep, 50
}
MsgBox, The End


Code:

Loop, %k1%
{
Send, {tab}
Sleep, 50
}
MsgBox, The End


Code:

Loop, % k1 +1
{
Send, {tab}
Sleep, 50
}
MsgBox, The End


...but in all the above cases, the loop just goes on and on and on.

If I can't figure this out, I'm gonna call an AutoIt EXE file for the loop, and then return to AutoHotKey for some of the other functions.

Thanks in advance.
Samuel
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Aybra



Joined: 16 May 2006
Posts: 58
PostPosted: Wed May 17, 2006 8:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Code:

^4::
sleep, 1000
k1 = 15



k3 = %k1%
Loop
{
Send, %k3%`n
Sleep, 50
k3 -= 1
if k3 < 0
break
}
MsgBox, The End


this prints 15-0, .. then breaks
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TeknoMusicMan



Joined: 14 Apr 2005
Posts: 188
Location: Wisconsin, USA
PostPosted: Wed May 17, 2006 8:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I ran the following code to test the loop.

Code:
k1 = 10
num = 1

loop %k1%
{
  msgbox, %num%
  num += 1
}


Is that all of your code? maybe your variable is somehow being read as a string instead of a number?
you could try looking at the SetFormat command.
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corrupt



Joined: 29 Dec 2004
Posts: 2436
PostPosted: Thu May 18, 2006 5:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Are you using a hotkey to start this code? If yes, which one? Tab? Does the code above and below this code end with a Return line? Which version of AutoHotkey are you using? Tested ok here:

Code:
~Tab::
k1 = 49
Loop, %k1%
{
Send, {tab}
Sleep, 50
}
MsgBox, The End
Return
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