WaitKeyDown and mouse clicks

JRL · Post by **JRL** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 8:21 pm

This has been discussed before but I have never seen a definitive resolution of the topic. If there is a solution I would appreciate information about it.

WaitKeyDown works for many virtual keys but I've never been able to make it work with mouse clicks.

WKD>VK1
// OR //
WKD>VK2

will wait forever with no response from mouse clicking. Is it possible to have WaitKeyDown respond to a mouse click?

Thanks for listening,
Dick

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 10:22 am

This will be sorted. If you are running 8 beta, check out the OnEvent and KEY_DOWN event. This does detect the mouse buttons correctly and can also accept modifier keys (e.g. you can make it detect Shift+Left button). WaitKeyDown will also work properly with mouse buttons when 8.0 is released.

JRL · Post by **JRL** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:12 pm

Just installed V8.0 today. I've tested the WaitKeyDown>VK1 to wait for a mouse click and it works very well.

Thank you MJT,
Dick

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:14 pm

Note also the KEY_DOWN event type you can use with OnEvent. This allows you to detect and respond to a key down event at any time during script execution, even if you don't know when it might occur.

JRL · Post by **JRL** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:33 pm

Yes, I've been experimenting with that also. It adds a new dimension to the possibilities of scripting with Macro Scheduler. It will take me a while to make it part of my thought process when programming.

Awesome new feature.

Dick