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Read lines from a file and pause for hotkey?

Asked by Julian Moorhouse

I'd like to iterate through lines in from a file. Using each line to paste or type that line into an application.
I'd then like to wait for some interaction perhaps via a hotkey.

I've managed to find this example code to read through a file.
Also I've found how to handle a hotkey with a while loop

Putting it all together I have something like...

running = true
def runHotkey(event):
 global running
 running = false

Env.addHotkey(Key.NUM4,0, runHotkey)

theFile = file(r"F:\Office\Script\sikulitestfiles\Text.txt")
for line in theFile:
  while running:
      print line # print line in sikuli
      click("1330680438453.png"), type(line)
theFile.close()

Does this look ok / safe ?

Thanks in advance.

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#1

for line in theFile:
  while running:
      print line # print line in sikuli
      click("1330680438453.png"), type(line)

will not work, since the while loop will repeat with the first line until running gets False.

for line in theFile:
  if running: # check wether hotkey was pressed
      print line # print line in sikuli
      click("1330680438453.png")
      wait(0.5) # this depends on how fast your GUI reacts
      type(line) # paste() is needed if line contains special characters or even non-ASCII
      wait(5) # see comment

comment: when a line is processed, the script should wait some time to give you a chance to observe and react ;-)

without

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Julian Moorhouse (mindwarpjules) said : 		#3

Oops I didn't mean to mark that as answer.

Thanks, however I really need to wait until a hotkey is pressed rather than wait for a fixed period.

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Julian Moorhouse (mindwarpjules) said : 		#4

Hmmm I could perhaps but the hotkey check around the pause

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#5

What exactly do you want? Should the process wait for a key-press after each line?

In my opinion in such case some kind of popup would be a better choice than a hotkey, see http://sikulix-2014.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interaction.html

The hotkey feature better serves the requirements of interrupting the processing wherever it might be at that moment. What you need seems to be a decision to wait or continue at a specific point in the processing.

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Julian Moorhouse (mindwarpjules) said : 		#6

>Should the process wait for a key-press after each line?

Yes.

A popup sounds ideal :)

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Julian Moorhouse (mindwarpjules) said : 		#7

To make things perfect, could I somehow exit the file loop. I'm thinking I could use an input popup or a yes / no popup.

Thoughts ?

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#8

instead of popup use popAsk(), which has a yes/no choice.
see:
http://sikulix-2014.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interaction.html#popAsk

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Julian Moorhouse (mindwarpjules) said : 		#9

Sorry I actually meant, how would I exit the line for loop.
If there and exitfor perhaps ?

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#10

SikuliX talks Python ;-)

break

jumps out of a loop

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