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Is there going to be a way to add to a ListView from an exteral program? Like if I had two AHK scripts running could one Add to a ListView of the other?

I have ways to go around this with temporary files, just curious if this will be an option in the future, or even possible.

thanks,
beardboy

I was toying with the idea of having LV_GetText() work on foreign ListViews (those not owned by the script itself). If it turns out to be feasible, your idea would be a natural extension to it.

Perhaps the syntax could be:
Gui, ListView, ClassNN, WinTitle, WinText
; Above would allow LV_Add(), LV_GetText, etc. to work on foreign ListViews.

I hope to check on the feasibility of this soon because the ability to extract text from non-AHK ListViews is a high priority. Thanks for the idea.

I decided to do the ListView text retrieval by extending ControlGet rather than enhancing LV_GetText and the other LV functions. This is because it seemed to offer simpler syntax, while also being better in performance and smaller in code size.

The ability to add rows to external ListViews (those not owned by the script) is also something that would be non-trivial in code size, so it seemed best not to implement it. Another problem with it is that the target program might misbehave or even crash if it's not designed to cope with such intervention (though I think it would be okay to use between two AHK scripts, as you suggested).