One hotkey, two functions? (pause/play)

[Devlin]

Currently Rearmer can pause/play but involves two hotkeys. I'd like to make it one hotkey that can toggle back and forth. Here's what the code is currently. I keep having glimpses of ideas that fade out so any suggestions would be lovely.

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          onhotkey %Hold
          {
          set %T_Hold #time 
          set %Sub2 CAOff
          }
          onhotkey %Play
          {
          set %Sub2 CAOn
          event sysmessage Casting has been resumed. Hit %hold to Pause.
          }

[Xavian]

I'm not at my main comp to see for sure, but this is the type of pause my scripts use.

I use this section in the main code where I want the ability to pause:

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onhotkey %Pause
{
  set %T_Hold #time 
  set %Sub2 CAOff
  gosub Pause
}
Resume:

And this is just added at the end:

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Sub Pause
{
  onhotkey %Pause
  {
    set %Sub2 CAOn
    event sysmessage Casting has been resumed. Hit %hold to Pause.
    Goto Resume
  }
  gosub Pause
}

[Dramoor]

Or just add a pause menu Button to click. Is easier to click a button and wait for it to hit, than to sit and hold a hotkey waiting for that line to go.

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;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
    menu clear                                                 ;
    set #menubutton none                                       ;
    menu window size 50 40                                     ;
    menu button pause 0 0 100 40 Pause                         ;
    menu show                                                  ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

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;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; A sub that just checks if you pushed pause                   ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
sub checkPause
{
 if #menubutton = pause
 {
  event exmsg #charid 3 0 Paused
  set #menubutton none
  while #true
  {
   wait 10
   if #menubutton = pause
   {
    event exmsg #charid 3 0 Resuming
    set #menubutton none
    return
   }
  }
 }
 return
}

[Xavian]

Far nicer that way. I haven't done a whole lot with windows other than changing a couple things in a previous script, but I may have to learn

[Dramoor]

Yeah menus are fun and with some things can be a lot easier than using a hotkey, since you have to wait for it to recognize the hotkey, the button stays pushed until next push so it will get recognized on its own. And yeah Menus are fun, I have a nice menu I wrote too that will pm a large group of players whatever you put in the field to say then hit Send and it auto sends that message to whoever u have on the list for it to send to. Far easier to call out a champ that way, as you have to wait for them to send....but you do not have to type [pm name message every time.

[Xavian]

I completely agree. I actually added menus to a couple of my scripts last night and learned a bit about them. I am gonna have to do that more often. I like that idea of the PM script. Certainly could be very useful, I hate sending a PM to a bunch of people like that