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ArchCarrier

Post subject: Hotkey doesn't work when #Included

Posted: January 17th, 2009, 3:16 pm

Joined: June 3rd, 2008, 6:44 pm
Posts: 27

I've made a quick popup menu that I like to access using Win+A. I #Include the menu code in the top of my autohotkey.ini
Now, the weird thing is that the hotkey doesn't work when using #Include. Only when I run the menu script by itself the hotkey becomes active.

I have tried all combinations: including all the menu code directly in the .ini file, keeping the menu code apart but only including the hotkey in the .ini file, etc.
I'm out of options; what can be the problem?

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animeaime

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Posted: January 17th, 2009, 5:21 pm

Joined: November 4th, 2008, 9:23 am
Posts: 1045

Can you post the code?

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ArchCarrier

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Posted: January 18th, 2009, 9:21 am

Joined: June 3rd, 2008, 6:44 pm
Posts: 27

Of course. Here are the very first two lines of my Autohotkey.ini:

Code:

#Include c:\Program Files\AutoHotkey\Scripts\Functions.ahk
#Include c:\Program Files\AutoHotkey\Scripts\StartMenu.ahk

A couple of lines down I have this:

Code:

#a::Menu, MyMenu, Show, 0, 1024

Here is the code in StartMenu.ahk:

Code:

CoordMode, Menu, Screen

; Create submenu
Menu, Submenu1, Add, &AutoHotkey.ini, AutoHotkey
Menu, Submenu1, Add, &Start Menu, StartMenu
Menu, Submenu1, Add, U&RL Filter, URLfilter
Menu, Submenu1, Add, &Telefoonnummers, EditTelefoonnummers

; Display submenu
Menu, MyMenu, Add, &Edit files, :Submenu1

; Add separator
Menu, MyMenu, Add

Menu, MyMenu, Add, Play &DVD, PlayDVD
Menu, MyMenu, Add, &Photoshop, Photoshop
Menu, MyMenu, Add, &Illustrator, Illustrator
Menu, MyMenu, Add, &Lightroom, Lightroom
Menu, MyMenu, Add, &Writer, Writer
Menu, MyMenu, Add, &Calc, Calc
Menu, MyMenu, Add, Mnemos&yne, Mnemosyne
Menu, MyMenu, Add, Super&Memo, SuperMemo
Menu, MyMenu, Add, &Skype, Skype
Menu, MyMenu, Add, Tas&k Scheduler, TaskScheduler
Menu, MyMenu, Add, &XAMPP, StartXampp

return

Followed by all the menu handlers and nothing else.

As I said, I have tried putting the hotkey line everywhere I could think of, but I always get the same error: "Error in #Include file c:\Program Files\AutoHotkey\Scripts\StartMenu.ahk: Menu does not exist."

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animeaime

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Posted: January 18th, 2009, 10:13 am

Joined: November 4th, 2008, 9:23 am
Posts: 1045

I added the hotkey after the menu creation (after the return statement in StartMenu.ahk) and had no problem. If I remember correctly, if you put in a hotkey, it ends the auto-exec section. This means, if you put your hotkey anywhere but after the entire auto-exec section is done, you won't have what follows evaluated. Below is a simple script to illustrate this point.

Code:

#a::MsgBox, Test
MsgBox, This is NEVER seen!!
return

Code:

MsgBox, But this is :)
return
#a::MsgBox, Test

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ArchCarrier

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Posted: January 18th, 2009, 1:32 pm

Joined: June 3rd, 2008, 6:44 pm
Posts: 27

That was indeed the solution, but not in the pieces of code I posted: in the Functions.ahk that's included in the first line of my .ini file, I had put a hotkey. I was working on both files at the same time, so I didn't realise it was the Functions part that caused the problem.

Thanks anyway!

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