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AutoHotkey_L

AutoHotkey_L is my custom build of AutoHotkey. Primary features include:

• Objects (associative arrays with extended functionality).
• Interactive debugging features, when used with a compatible debugging client.
• Native COM support and x64 compatibility (thanks to fincs and Sean).
• #if expression - Similar to #IfWinActive, but for arbitrary expressions.
• Assign icons to menu items and other improvements to icon support.
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Recent revisions do not support __expr or SimpleExpr.
If you must use these scripts, get Revision 13.
Otherwise, get the latest revision above.
Source code and binaries are available for L13.

First of all, WOW, some excellent additions there. Most useful for me will be the #If directive, assuming its what I think it is it will remove the need for me to keep activating and deactivating 30 odd hotkeys according to what I'm using my computer for.


Also just out of interest, have you discussed with Chris regarding merging some of these into the original, or do you intend to keep yours seperate??

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#if (expression) sounds very useful eg) #if WinActive(win1) || WinActive(win2).
also it's good to have While loop though it seems a bit slow compared to Loop.
i had bunch of suggestions for future ahk (any build here)
but i would not make suggestion here which might cause pressure on you. i'll just cheer it up
Thanks for your contribution to community as always.
keep up your good work!

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I'll get back to you on that...
In my brief tests, While (expression) performed marginally faster than Loop .. if (expression) .. else break. Were you comparing While expression to Loop count? Apples and oranges...

Btw, I use #if for hotkeys sensitive to:

• the active control - to "fix" certain behaviours of Edit controls, and for a "toggle word-wrap" hotkey specific to Scintilla controls.
• the window under the cursor - to exclude remote desktop and VMware from mouse hotkeys/gestures.

Don't have time to check it out right now, but any day where modifications and improvements are made to AutoHotkey is a good day.

You're right, there was a big mistake in my test. i could see that While (expression) is pretty optimized. Sorry

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I found While is very handy. Thanks.
BTW, I'd like to make sure one thing: entering (or exiting?) While, is A_Index initialized/refreshed to zero? It seemed so in my test:

However, the result was different in the nested While:

Looks like when entering the second While, A_Index is not refreshed to zero.

hey thanks for this.

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Lexicos, I have been trying a few things out with the #IF directive, and I noticed it has a timeout where it will fail if the expression takes too long.

Is there a way to increase/decrease/remove this timeout. I am aware that removing the timeout and then calling an infinate loop could disable keyboard input.

The reason I asked was I was running some tests using imagesearch basically creating some image sensitive hotkeys, and the imagesearchs tend to take a bit too long.

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No, the expression is evaluated before the next iteration begins. In the case of the first iteration, it is evaluated before A_Index is given any value. Do you think A_Index should reflect which iteration is about to begin?

Btw, A_Index is normally 0 outside of any loops.
Not at the moment. Do you really want hotkeys that tie up the keyboard for longer than a second?

That could be quite useful, IMO, as While can be also used as a simplified For then. In that case, A_Index may better be initialized to 1 than 0 inside AHK's current scheme, though.

Superfraggle, note also that Windows implements its own time-out for low-level hooks. The default appears to be 5000ms.

Assume-static and While with A_Index initialization work great. Thanks.
I realized I forgot to ask about this: Is there a particular reason that Break/Continue are forbidden inside While, or is it just an accidental omission?

Congratz on first version of your code branch.
To do list is really awesome.

Cheers and good luck with this.

Excellent that works perfect, took me a while to get it working as desired, it appears at least on my XP system the default was 1000ms, the key didn't exist so I was unable to confirm that, but my tests seemed to confirm that. After creating the key, and setting it higher it worked with longer settings.

A point to any other users that may use this, If the IFtimeout is set higher than the windows default, this can resault in both the keys native function and your requested function being launched. Also if anyone does make changes to the key then you need to restart the computer for the changes to be picked up. (broadcasting a system setting change may help, but didnt have time to test.)

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