*Decompiling the Sim: AutoHotkey

[Yeenoghu]

Great work as always, Mag! You've been tremendously helpful this season.     

Thanks abh, we did it together!

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We've already talked a good deal privately about the script by now, but for everyone's sake--

i've never gotten AHK to do more than 400 without exploding on me. not sure what you guys are doing different.



...how many tabs did you use because i always tried to count and it kept changing smh

I think it's set to 16 tabs but that Configuration menu is a little buggy when coming into focus, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's eating one or more tabs at random times. I tried to offset this via delay, and clicking in the active window, but you might have to tweak it if needed.

that might have to do with how we're doing the functions though - i use click and then enter so the mouse doesn't have to move. i will have to look at your script later.



oh well there you go. weird that it's so much faster for you haha

I didn't notice a difference in speed between using clicks and keyboard inputs, but the main reason I used keyboard inputs was because I wanted to distribute the script to the community at large. I started out with mouse clicks at first, but we ran into all kinds of all issues with resolution, multiple monitors, fullscreen vs. windowed mode, etc. when trying to establish mouse coordinates. Once abh figured out that Alt + F4 was an acceptable method to close the Game Details window, that was the final keystroke we needed to make it all keyboard-based. The only clicks in the script now are just to help with establishing the active window, so the position is largely irrelevant.

anyways this is all super awesome work and i love that you're sharing this with the whole league. i was never comfortable with releasing my stuff (and i've got some super secret testing stuff) because it's still super buggy. i'm excited to see your AHK code!

Thanks for the feedback infinite, it's always welcome. I'm sure plenty of people that try to take up using the script will find some strange bugs, but hopefully that will just serve to get them familiar with AutoHotkey and scripting in general! I'm excited to go down this route!

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I think the number of sims before crash depends on your available RAM.

possibly, I could run about 700-800 before the script acting up on me

I definitely recommend starting with a relatively small number of runs and ramping your way up from there to test the limits. We couldn't ever get more than 1,000 to run, but who knows if it's performance-based.