Disables or enables all or selected hotkeys and hotstrings.
Suspend Mode
On or 1 (true): Suspends all hotkeys and hotstrings except those explained the Remarks section.
Off or 0 (false): Re-enables the hotkeys and hotstrings that were disable above.
Toggle or -1 (default): Changes to the opposite of its previous state (On or Off).
Permit: Does nothing except mark the current subroutine as being exempt from suspension.
Any hotkey/hotstring subroutine whose very first line is Suspend (except Suspend True) will be exempt from suspension. In other words, the hotkey will remain enabled even while suspension is ON. This allows suspension to be turned off via such a hotkey.
The keyboard and/or mouse hooks will be installed or removed if justified by the changes made by this function.
To disable selected hotkeys or hotstrings automatically based on the type of window that is present, use #IfWinActive/Exist.
Suspending a script's hotkeys does not stop the script's already-running threads (if any); use Pause to do that.
When a script's hotkeys are suspended, its tray icon changes to the letter S. This can be avoided by freezing the icon, which is done by specifying 1 for the last parameter of the Menu function. For example:
TraySetIcon "C:\My Icon.ico", , 1
The built-in variable A_IsSuspended contains 1 if the script is suspended and 0 otherwise.
#IfWinActive/Exist, Pause, Menu object, ExitApp
^!s::Suspend ; Assign the toggle-suspend function to a hotkey.
; Send a Suspend function to another script. DetectHiddenWindows True WM_COMMAND := 0x111 ID_FILE_SUSPEND := 65404 PostMessage WM_COMMAND, ID_FILE_SUSPEND,,, "C:\YourScript.ahk ahk_class AutoHotkey"