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this worked in my xp environment:


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just fyi, for me %home%/recent didnt work, I had to change it to
%userprofile%/recent. I'm on winxp sp3.

how might I alter this so I can use it as a generic include to enable GUI's to slide out from a hot edge ?

Seems like everything is tied to a menu name. Can we work on making this more like a wrapper ?

For example:

i have a GUI window which slides out with a #Tab hotkey.

Is there a way to send that hotkey combo when the mouse is at the left edge of the screen ?
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In the last line of the Edge subroutine replace the Menu command with the action you want. Sending a key is probably not a good idea, because AHK does not react to artificial keystrokes.

my include however, doesn't seem to get called or activated




the hotkey still works but nothing happens when the mouse gets to the left edge of the screen.
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thanks,

I couldn't get it to work as a simple include, but I was able to integrate it into my exisitng script.

Now it pulls my listbox out from the edge with the mouse or by hotkey


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You can include the script in the usual way, although it was not written as a module (global variables could conflict with your code):

Laszlo, thanks, this is a cool script. I found it very useful to find applications that I'd opened over different desktops (I use a window manager), without having to hunt for them now.


Some comments/questions:

1. I added some calls in the top menu to open up already opened apps instead of creating new ones, if they exist e.g.



2. #1 is possible for apps from MS that has a /recycle mode, but for those that don't e.g. Firefox/Thunderbird, the subroutines calls existing windows first i.e. winexist, winactivate etc.

3. I don't know how to apply the above techniques and your script to gvim however. At any time, I'll have gvim windows open all over my desktops (these are different files being edited e.g. TXT).
I replaced this line in your code:

,TXT>C:\WINDOWS\NOTEPAD.EXE

with

,TXT>C:\DOCUME~1\myname\Desktop\AutoIt\Useful\vim1.ahk

but it errored out:

Error: Failed attempt to launch program or document:
Action: <C:\DOCUME~1\myname\Desktop\AutoIt\Useful\vim1.ahk "C:\temp\reviewers.txt">
Params: <>

The current thread will exit.

Specifically: The system cannot find the file specified.


Line#
129: {
130: StringTrimRight,file,A_LoopFileName,4
131: Menu,DocMenu,Add,%file%,Open
132: }
133: Menu,DocMenu,Show,0
134: Return
137: FileGetShortcut,%Recent%\%A_ThisMenuItem%.lnk,file
---> 138: Run,App%type% " """ file """"
139: Return
142: Loop,%Recent%\*.lnk
143: {
144: FileGetShortcut,%A_LoopFileFullPath%,file
145: if !FileExist(file)
145: {
146: ToolTip,Deleting %A_LoopFileFullPath%



Code to vim1.ahk:


Thanks in advance for your help

I am not sure what you wanted to do, and I don’t have vim to test. My guess is that you want to act on each file from the clipboard. In this case you have to move the processing inside the loop. RunWait will stop the script until vim is closed, so you probably want to use Run. You might not need to set the working directory, but give the file with its path to vim. No need for return inside the loop. Something like this:

It didn't work. Restating my needs, I'm trying to use an AHK file to open up a text document, so I changed the Type to
TXT>C:\DOCUME~1\myname\Desktop\AutoIt\Useful\vim1.ahk


I tried your file (saved it and renamed it to vim1.ahk) and it has the same errors.
Is it because this file vim1.ahk is not an application (unlike the winword.exe, iexplore.exe that you have):

Types= AHK>C:\WINDOWS\NOTEPAD.EXE
,DOC>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WinWord.exe
,MHT>C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE
,PDF>C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe
,PPT>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\POWERPNT.EXE
,RTF>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WinWord.exe
,XLS>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE
,TXT>C:\DOCUME~1\myname\Desktop\AutoIt\Useful\vim1.ahk




Error: Failed attempt to launch program or document:
Action: <C:\DOCUME~1\myname\Desktop\AutoIt\Useful\vim1.ahk "C:\Documents and Settings\myname\Desktop\Utils\sfk.txt">
Params: <>

The current thread will exit.

Specifically: The system cannot find the file specified.


Line#
126: {
127: StringTrimRight,file,A_LoopFileName,4
128: Menu,DocMenu,Add,%file%,Open
129: }
130: Menu,DocMenu,Show,0
131: Return
134: FileGetShortcut,%Recent%\%A_ThisMenuItem%.lnk,file
---> 135: Run,App%type% " """ file """"
136: Return
139: Loop,%Recent%\*.lnk
140: {
141: FileGetShortcut,%A_LoopFileFullPath%,file
142: if !FileExist(file)
142: {
143: ToolTip,Deleting %A_LoopFileFullPath%

If AHK was properly installed, "Run path\script.ahk" should work. Try a single line script, with "Run C:\DOCUME~1\myname\Desktop\AutoIt\Useful\vim1.ahk". If you get an error, your path is wrong.

The original script gives the document to the called application in its command line parameter. Instead of the clipboard, you may want to use %1%.

Thanks for your patience; my AHK install is OK (verified your testcase), so that
wasn't the problem, but it pointed me to the solution. Here's what I changed to fix it:

1. ,TXT>C:\Documents and Settings\myname\Desktop\Utils\AutoHotkey\AutoHotkey.exe C:\DOCUME~1\myname\Desktop\AutoIt\Useful\vim1.ahk

2a. your suggestion to use %1% instead of clip in the vim1.ahk file.

2b. Of interest to VIMers only:

vim1.ahk:




Thanks to your help.

Next, I'll look into similar reopens of open explorer sessions.

you don't need the loop

You're right. I removed the loop (it was easier for me to copy/paste everything )