is there more professional way to write this Simple ... Topic is solved

[Barney15]

this code is working good, but is there a better way to write this on one line for example or any other method to send two keys with sleep time in between in one line.

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Send, ^{r}
Sleep,1000
Send, {Enter}

[teadrinker]

For me this works:

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Send ^{r}{Sleep 100}{Enter} ; 100 = 1s

[Barney15]

well it work with variable speed ?
eg :

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speed = 100
Send ^{r}{Sleep %speed%}{Enter}

[teadrinker]

For me this works too.

[Barney15]

thank you.

[gregster]

For me this works:

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Send ^{r}{Sleep 100}{Enter} ; 100 = 1s

Wouldn't this send the Sleep keyboard key a hundred times (which obviously would take some time - but how much might depend on key delay settings and send mode, I guess), which wouldn't be equivalent to Sleep (sure, obvious, if 100 = 1s). Well, if it works for the use case... but I would hesitate to call it "a better way", "more professional" or "simpler", which you asked for, Barney15. It's more "any other method". Edit: Not sure, if there could be side-effects in some programs.

I don't know, what does the Sleep key usually do? I don't think I have one.

[teadrinker]

I have no such key too, and I don't know how it works for sure. I've just remembered that I saw that approach somewere, I checked it — it turned working for me.

[gregster]

Yes, I have also seen it before. That's why I remember that it works somehow... but I wanted to mention it, to avoid confusion.
(AHK knows a Sleep key, according to the docs.)

[TAC109]

For me this works:

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Send ^{r}{Sleep 100}{Enter} ; 100 = 1s

The {Sleep 100} will simply sent the sleep key 100 times. There is no way in AutoHotkey_L to include a sleep command directly into the send string.

You may be thinking of AutoHotkey_H which allows this facility:

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Send ^{r}{1000}{Enter} ; sleep 1000ms before Enter

[Barney15]

TAC109 and gregster, thank you for information,
because at first i didn't know why the value of sleep changed suddenly to became in ms, it's turned up that it's became a key that sent certain number of times, + in my script i use setkeydelay and that may effect it too, since sleep behaves as a key.
still it's a good way too

[TAC109]

Of course, if the Sleep key on the computer is configured to actually sleep or hibernate, there will be a much longer pause!

[Masonjar13]

Depending on your use case, this would also work.

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setKeyDelay,1000 ; specify this in the auto-execute, or at the beginning of a logical thread (hotkey, timer, etc.)

send ^{r}{Enter}