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Here .. this seems to work:

Most of such commands (with OutputVar) will become functions in v.2.

majkinetor: thanks for the research. Usable code:

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

This is the function:



Ah... I went to lunch before posting this and I see that you already did this code. I modified Philhose GetAnsiStringFromUnicodePointer function ...

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look here, too.

thx

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Just for the record: Generate a GUID via COM (needs Sean's Standard Library COM.ahk)

Why does this not work?





but this does work??





I'm smashing my face on the screen here with frustration.....

i posted the same thing twice...

there was a very minute change i didn't paste in cause i was fumeing mad...



here is the one that works:

^u::
msgbox % CreateGUID()
;;send % CreateGUID()
return

CreateGuid()
{
local len, ansiString, data

VarSetCapacity(data, 96)

dllcall("ole32.dll\CoCreateGuid", "uint", &data)
dllcall("ole32.dll\StringFromGUID2", "uint", &data, "str", data, "int", 40)

len := DllCall("lstrlenW", "UInt", &data)
VarSetCapacity(ansiString, len, 0)

DllCall("WideCharToMultiByte"
, "UInt", 0 ; CodePage: CP_ACP=0 (current Ansi), CP_UTF7=65000, CP_UTF8=65001
, "UInt", 0 ; dwFlags
, "UInt", &data ; LPCWSTR lpWideCharStr
, "Int", len ; cchWideChar: size in WCHAR values, -1=null terminated
, "Str", ansiString ; LPSTR lpMultiByteStr
, "Int", len ; cbMultiByte: 0 to get required size
, "UInt", 0 ; LPCSTR lpDefaultChar
, "UInt", 0) ; LPBOOL lpUsedDefaultChar

Return ansiString
}

so why does the send version of this not work?
while the useless msgbox version does?

the only difference is?


whats so preposterously different with MSGBOX that SEND cant do similar things???

i don't want a MSGBOX with a UUID cause i have to punch my screen in trying to copy the number and letter string item for item character for character...

damnit this is really pissing me off. i shouldn't have to come to the forum for help on this. it's the most basic part of autohotkey. Send should be second nature to me by now damnit.

I'm sitting here scanning through help file and index after bloody index, with no examples of how to call a function from a SEND, but of course MSGBOX can do it. no problem... WHY? i spent 3 hours trying to run experiments and read through that felling help file. I looked in the forum, but of course i have to shovel through billions of posts and read 9k pages of stuff that has nothing to do with my problem only to end up here finally posting... because SEND for some magically delicious reason behaves nothing like MSGBOX. it's moments like these where i realize college courses spent on computer programing are an epic waste of money. Damnit!

35 experiments later,

i find that i was finally able to make it work with SENDRAW

Good it's done.. now i'm crawling into bed.

side effect of Flu = Very very angry Rabbit...

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Just a small hint: AHK_L says unsupported use of ".". There should be space after SubStr(), then it works. Spcifically change line

to

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{1:"ahkstdlib", 2:"my libs", 3:"my apps", 4:"my license"}
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