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can anyone do this??

can anyone tell me how to make these hotstrings to work in specific windows and/or controls?

You can do it like this for different windows:


You can use ControlGet with specific controls.

I have another question. I can't seem to get this beautiful function to work with the character < (angled bracket). The following should work but doesn't work:



I tried escaping the bracket with \, but that doesn't help. If I use any other character instead of <, the code works fine. What is this? Am I forgetting something obvious?

It would be more elegant (and flexible) if the hotstrings function accepted a third parameter for the IfWinActive option. As you can see there are two "Hotkey"s adding "Hotkey, IfWinActive/Exist, 3rd paramenter" above those loops might be worth exploring

So your code example would become

Don't know if it would work though as I haven't tried it.

Edit the line that says and chance 58 to 60. The ascii value of < is 60 so it currently doesn't include that character. Tested.

Hey Guest, thank you! I tried that, and at first it seemed to work, at least I was able to use the < character a few times. All I changed was the number from 58 to 60.

But when I tried adding to this (I was looking for something like "map<*.> test"), it stopped working.

On my other computer, it doesn't work either (exact same text tile synchronized through Dropbox), and now certain keys don't work any more: I can't type < or > or ? at all on the PC if < is in the Hotstrings function! When I remove it and reload, the keys work as normal again. This is so strange: it doesn't work on two computers, but the kind problem is different. Is there anything more I can try before giving up on this function? I already tried closing all my other AHK scripts, didn't help.

You can change 60 to 64 as well to take into account some more chars, but to fix your problem you'll have to be more explicit in your RE for example now you will have to type < followed by a . to get boo. If you type a single < nothing will happen. You can also put a condition BEFORE the < to make it even more explicit, you'll have to fiddle around with it for a bit.
One more tip: in the script(s) you use hotstrings with always add at the top of your script, I find it helps while testing. You'll note that in hotstrings SendInput is used, you could replace that with a regular SEND so you can easily test various in your script to see what works best. Note if you have Win7 and you want to use SendPlay read this http://www.autohotkey.com/wiki/index.ph ... leshooting and follow the two SendPlay links you'll see there.

hello!

can anyone tell me how to make this script work in a window with specific class and inside a specific control?



thanks!

Modify hotstrings as described above by applying the Hotkey, IfWinActive/Exist option, http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/Hotkey.htm

I made it:



and it says "too many parameters"

You need to modify hotstrings.ahk first.
Read http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/Hotkey.htm and look at the last example on the page (earlier on the page are similar examples) For both Hotkey commands in hotstrings.ahk you need to insert a line above and below using the third parameter.

all I have to do is to insert these lines:
Hotkey, %m%%c%, __hs
Hotkey, %m%%A_LoopField%, __hs
in the begining and the end of the Hotstring.ahk, but where exactly?

however, with this method, I will have to use multiple Hostring.ahk files, to use multiple hotstrings per window, right?

I used Cerberus' method and I wrote this:

it works well, but the problem is that in other that the wanted window, I dont want the script to replace the typed text with the typed text, I just want it not to work at all

Reading isn't one of your qualities, so I quote myself:

of course be sure to put something below the these hotkeys as well to turn of the "context sensitive" part.

I have just downloaded the hostrings.ahk and I've found an Issue. I've read all the seven pages of this thread but I've found nobody else reporting this.
Seems that backtick and tilde ( since they're not present in my italian keyboard ) generate an error in the first loop

As a workaround I've prepended this line with the try command which avoid the error blocking the load of the code and all worked as supposed to. I just would know if there's a better way to get rid of this problem without modifiyng the original script.

Thanks in advance.
P.S: the hostrings.ahk version is 2.56

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