Having keyboard interact with programs during input Autohotkey

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I'm trying to create a program that plays a continuous "beep" sound anytime 3 seconds have passed without any key being pressed. The beep sound continues until another key is pressed, which renews the 3 second countdown.

I want the program to run in the background while I'm typing. However, while the script is running, other programs (such as Microsoft Word) do not respond to keystrokes. I tried setting BlockInput to Off, but that didn't solve the problem. Any ideas on getting the keyboard to interact with other programs? Thanks! 

loop 
{
Transform, CtrlQ, Chr, 17
Input, KeyPress, L1 M T3
if KeyPress = %CtrlQ%
    ExitApp
if (ErrorLevel = "Timeout") 
{
 Run, Beep.mp3, Hide
 Input, Cont, L1
 if (ErrorLevel = "Max")
{
     WinClose, Beep.mp3 - SMPlayer
}
}
}
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keyboardautohotkey

2 Answers

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votes

other programs (such as Microsoft Word) do not respond to keystrokes

That's because your inputs block them. Add the V option (which stands for visible), like

Input, KeyPress, L1 M T3 V

This is similar to ~ for Hotkeys

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loop {
   if(A_TimeIdle >= 3000) {
       sleep 100
       IfWinNotExist, Beep.mp3 - SMPlayer
       {
          Run, Beep.mp3, Hide
       }
   } else {
       IfWinExist, Beep.mp3 - SMPlayer
       {
          WinClose, Beep.mp3 - SMPlayer
       }
   }
}

^q::
   ExitApp
return

A_TimeIdle might be the right function in this case.