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deleyd

Post subject: autohtokey.exe not in PATH but still works?

Posted: July 6th, 2009, 6:43 pm

Joined: March 8th, 2008, 11:36 am
Posts: 64
Location: Santa Barbara

Why does this work at a command prompt:

Code:

>autohotkey.exe MyScript.ahk

Usually I can't run programs unless their directory is in the PATH environment, otherwise the computer doesn't know where the program is. Autohotkey is not in the PATH, so how does the computer know where it is?

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Tuncay

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Posted: July 6th, 2009, 9:13 pm

Joined: November 7th, 2006, 9:47 pm
Posts: 1934
Location: Germany

If i try to call autohotkey.exe on my command line, it does say me that the program is not found, unless I am in same directory. So why do you think your computer knows about autohotkeys path? If it is not in PATH variable ... so you cannot execute it.

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SKAN

Post subject: Re: autohtokey.exe not in PATH but still works?

Posted: July 6th, 2009, 9:20 pm

Joined: December 26th, 2005, 4:40 pm
Posts: 8776

deleyd wrote:

Autohotkey is not in the PATH, so how does the computer know where it is?

It could be in registry.. Check the following:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths

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deleyd

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Posted: July 7th, 2009, 6:23 pm

Joined: March 8th, 2008, 11:36 am
Posts: 64
Location: Santa Barbara

Yup there it is:

Code:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\AutoHotkey.exe]
@="C:\\Program Files\\AutoHotkey\\AutoHotkey.exe"

The instructions say to call an autohotkey script use:

Code:

AutoHotkey.exe [Switches] [Script Filename] [Script Parameters]

http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Scripts.htm#cmd

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