Question about questing and auto looting with AHK

[unit187]

ye warrior had HWL gear and priest was tier2



About AHK. Whenever you launch a script a small "H" icon appears in trey. When you right mouse click the icon there is menu. In the menu there is function to pause script executing so you basically pause script and type what you want and launch it once again.

[Miquexia]

ye warrior had HWL gear and priest was tier2



About AHK. Whenever you launch a script a small "H" icon appears in trey. When you right mouse click the icon there is menu. In the menu there is function to pause script executing so you basically pause script and type what you want and launch it once again.

Ahh, so theres no other way to pause the script without using my task bar?

[unit187]

I dont think there is any other way to pause your script

[Miquexia]

Aight, thanks

[Djarid]

I don't have the code snippet in work so will edit this post when I get home but...

[code:1]/::
ENTER:::
Suspend
return[/code:1]

that is the basics of what you are after... it will toggle the suspend state of the script whenever you hit either the / or the ENTER

the problem I had was that I lost track of whether the script was supended or not (autohide task bar)

so I added extra functionality that checks the state and displays a popup when suspended.

btw if the first line after the hotkey is not suspend then you need to add the command

[code:1]Suspend Permit[/code:1]

this goes for any hot keys that you want to work even when suspended e.g reload or edit

[Miquexia]

Hey, Looking forward on your edited one.

Is there a way to make it like this: press enter to suspend, press enter again to unsuspend? or should i just hotkey 2 buttons for suspend / unsuspend?

[Djarid]

the suspend command defaults to toggle

or you can enter it on the line like so

[code:1]Suspend toggle[/code:1]


either way then it swaps suspend on receipt of either key.

I will post my snippet when I get home....

it is not a lot more complex except that I display a small dialog when AHK is suspended.

[Djarid]

sorry for the delay... didn't get as much computer time as I hoped this weekend but...


the code I use to manage my AHK script and suspend during chat is...

This section is near the top and works regardless of the forground application... it ensures that I can suspend the script in the event of a crazy loop and can also edit or restart it in the suspended state.
[code:1]
; CTRL+ALT+p - toggle suspend manually
^!p::
Suspend, Permit
Suspend
return

; CTRL+ALT+o - reload script even if suspended
^!o::
Suspend, Permit
Reload
return

; CTRL+ALT+' - edit the script even if suspended
^!'::
Suspend, Permit
Edit
return
[/code:1]


This code explicitly sets the suspend state after checking the current state... it displays a small window with a suspend notification picture to show it is suspended.
[code:1]
;*** Gui Notifications ***
; set up the dialog which will be displayed when scrip is suspended

Gui, Add,Picture,w100 h-1 ,C:\scripts\resources\suspended.png

;*** Chat Functions ***
; in order to show the suspended dialog this explicitly sets the suspend state
~/::
~Enter::
Suspend, Permit
if (A_IsSuspended = 1) {
Suspend, off
Gui, Show, Hide
} else {
Suspend, on
Gui, Show, W100 H100 X1390 Y10
WinActivate, ahk_id %idMain%

}
return
[/code:1]

instead of the above code, if you don't want a gui window displaying just use

[code:1]
~/::
~Enter::
Suspend, toggle
return
[/code:1]

I find that my logging into the game (pressing enter) takes me into suspended state so I have a [code:1]Suspend, off [/code:1] command immediately after this routine.

[Miquexia]

Hey m8,

thanks for the code!

I changed it a little so it wont show a picture but just a little window with text in it:

[code:1];*** Chat Functions ***
; in order to show the suspended dialog this explicitly sets the suspend state
~]::
Suspend, Permit
if (A_IsSuspended = 1) {
Suspend, off
SplashTextOn, 75, , Unsuspended
Sleep, 1000
SplasHtextoff
;Gui, Show, Hide
} else {
Suspend, on
SplashTextOn, 70, , Suspended
Sleep, 1000
SplasHtextoff
;Gui, Show, W100 H100 X600 Y10
WinActivate, ahk_id %idMain%

}
return[/code:1]