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thomasl

Post subject: Menu, tray, default, &Help

Posted: June 27th, 2005, 11:46 am

Joined: June 16th, 2005, 12:23 pm
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The docs left me with the distinct impression that the above line would make the &Help entry in the tray menu the default choice.

It doesn't. AHK just complains about a nonexistent menu item. What gives?

Thomas

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daonlyfreez

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Posted: June 27th, 2005, 12:28 pm

Joined: March 16th, 2005, 10:33 pm
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Location: Frisia

Try:

Code:

Menu, TRAY, Default, Help

Without the ampersand. The ampersand is used to define the key-shortcut that can be used if the menu is selected, but is not part of the label/name.

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thomasl

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Posted: June 27th, 2005, 1:02 pm

Joined: June 16th, 2005, 12:23 pm
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Of course, I tried that before posting.

At any rate, the docs say clearly that the & is required:

Quote:

When referring to an existing menu or menu item, the name is not case sensitive but any ampersands must be included. For example: &Open

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daonlyfreez

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Posted: June 27th, 2005, 1:27 pm

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Hmm, ok my bad...

Can you post the code that causes this?

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thomasl

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Posted: June 27th, 2005, 3:21 pm

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Quote:

post the code

What do you mean? The error message is caused by the one line which forms the subject of this thread. But if it helps, here it's once again:
Smile

Code:

Menu, tray, default, &Help

Nothing more, nothing less.

This is part of a much bigger setup but that shouln't be of any importance.

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toralf

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Posted: June 27th, 2005, 3:46 pm

Joined: January 31st, 2005, 9:50 am
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Location: Bremen, Germany

I never used that command, but shouldn't it

Code:

Menu, tray, add default, &Help

*just a guess*

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toralf

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Posted: June 27th, 2005, 3:47 pm

Joined: January 31st, 2005, 9:50 am
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or maybe two lines

Code:

Menu, tray, add, &Help
Menu, tray, default, Help

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thomasl

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Posted: June 27th, 2005, 3:58 pm

Joined: June 16th, 2005, 12:23 pm
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&Help is a standard menu item for the tray, so I don't think so.

What you suggest works for menu items I add myself to the tray menu, I checked that, but not for the standard ones.

There are a zillion possible ways to try get that working but what the heck, if it doesn't work, so be it.

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daonlyfreez

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Posted: June 27th, 2005, 4:07 pm

Joined: March 16th, 2005, 10:33 pm
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Location: Frisia

Weird...

I took a portion of the code in the Help file:

Code:

#Persistent
#SingleInstance
menu, tray, add ; separator 
menu, tray, add, &Help
menu, tray, default, &Help
return

And it gives me the following error (similar to yours):

Quote:

Error: Target label does not exist. The current thread will exit.

Specifically: &Help

Line#
003: Menu,tray,add
---> 004: Menu,tray,add,&Help
005: Menu,tray,default,&Help
006: Return
007: Exit
007: Exit

Doesn't matter which label/text I try to use... (with or without ampersands)

Very weird... Since, when I use the whole code from the Help file, it works...

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toralf

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Posted: June 27th, 2005, 4:16 pm

Joined: January 31st, 2005, 9:50 am
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Location: Bremen, Germany

What AHK wants is the label, add this to your code and it should work (I hope)

Code:

Help:
   MsgBox, Help is given
return

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daonlyfreez

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Posted: June 27th, 2005, 4:41 pm

Joined: March 16th, 2005, 10:33 pm
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Location: Frisia

Duh...

Ok, very good... no bug (a feature

)...

Code:

#Persistent
#SingleInstance
menu, tray, add ; separator 
menu, tray, add, &Help
menu, tray, default, &Help
return

&Help:
msgbox, You selected Help
return

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Chris

Post subject: Re: Menu, tray, default, &Help

Posted: June 27th, 2005, 11:24 pm

Joined: March 2nd, 2004, 3:36 pm
Posts: 10720

thomasl wrote:

Menu, tray, default, &Help

The standard menu items are not individually addressable. They use all-or-none behavior (such as NoStandard).

There were design reasons for this. I believe the primary one was that it would add considerable complexity to the code to make them individually addressable.

I will add more comments to the help file about this limitation.

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thomasl

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Posted: June 28th, 2005, 10:49 am

Joined: June 16th, 2005, 12:23 pm
Posts: 92

Quote:

add more comments to the help file about this limitation

Yes, that would be helpful. Would've saved me a bit of groping in the dark :wink:

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