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i'm trying to make an autohotkey scripter that acts like the visual basic scripter but i need some help with it .

i need to know how to make a list that appears when u type that will update and search throu the ahk tags every time you add a letter to the word , close and reset when u hit the space bar ,replace what u typed with the required info (example: u select "if" and it gets deleted and "if ;var1 = ;var2 {enter}{enter} else {enter}{enter} return" replaces it )

and posably make somthing like smart gui but with all the gui options and controls or posably make a entire program like visual basic but for ahk

Google the forum for this: "ISense AND IntelliSense AND IntelliType"

ok that'll help thanks

There are editors with the intellisense feature for AHK code already. I recommend SciTE, very useful at making things easier to read.

Take a peek at Notepad++. I feel that this is the best editor for coding, hands down.

NPP has the functionality you desire, as well as syntax folding, syntax highlighting, etc.

It is an open source project too, so all the better. Furthermore, being oss, it has quite a number of useful 3rd party developed plugins. Like SciTE, it too is based on the Scintilla - a nice and very powerful editor framework.

Take a peek at it here, or you can visit the SourceForge project homepage here. I think it has been in the top 5 for most Active SourceForge projects for quite a while.

The tool is still being actively developed, is very stable, and quickly fixed when a bug does surface.

I am actually coding up an AHK based ARMbasic IDE with NPP being the editing component, and AHK fulfilling the balance of the IDE functionality.

Another alternative is Crimson Editor. It is a nice stable tool too, but not nearly as aggressively developed, and not as feature-ful...

Good luck!

-t

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