set input delay...

[Apprisco]

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Hi,
it is completely unclear whether or not you can setup input delay.
Right now it types a text message in mere milliseconds, but i want to put a key delay after each stroke for 10ms.
This isn't supported right now it seems, while it's a basic feature in AHK.

[spyoungtech]

Have you tried using the key_delay parameter?

[Apprisco]

where? Key_delay exists for just typing, but not sending messages TO a window.

[spyoungtech]

That's true. There is an oversight in the API for Window.send and this parameter isn't there. Though, you did not mention your use case is for sending to a window until just now :)

I should be able to add this feature quickly, both for a key_delay parameter in Window.send and also a global set_key_delay perhaps.

In the meantime, a workaround may be to control the delays 'manually':

delay = 0.1
for key in 'my message':
    win.send(key)
    time.sleep(delay)

[Apprisco]

This is great! By the way, is this send basically ControlSend? Would it cause the same issues as win,shift,alt,ctrl keys being stuck?

[spyoungtech]

Right. The underlying functionality of Window.send uses AutoHotkey's ControlSend, so the behavior you observe will be identical to that of ControlSend in AutoHotkey scripts.