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ShellHook method doesn't catch all dialog boxes. WinEventHook is better.

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"Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly." - Mae West

Here you may find the latest version of the original script.

It's called now "Fensterpflege" which means "Window care".
Beside the new GUI I added some additional improvements, so the script automatically:
- pushes buttons
- removes and resizes new windows
- makes a Key - Enter - Ready - State (mainly for passwords) (wait until the user pushes the Scroll-Key)
- finds any text on a IE site and this way can push buttons on a website
- verbalizes all activities
- creates ini-files automatically
The only problem: the whole GUI and description is in German. I had no time for translation yet.

The WindowMessage I don't like so much, because it's not flexible enough. For instance I need a window title change detection (and sometimes even a window text change detection). So I can detect new websites, new documents opened etc.

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I've just started the updated script from the german forum.

First thing: the 'About' message box barely fit to my display, vertically; I'd really recommend a scrollable edit box of a reasonable size instead.

Next thing, it asked to create the ini file in C:\Windows\Application Data\AutoHotkey\Fensterpflege.ini. Well, that path popped up because I'm using Win98SE which has no user separation; nonetheless, I'd prefer having it store the ini in script's folder or at least prompt for a manually chosen path. Right now, if I choose 'No' it will just exit the script.

On a second run, I let it save the ini and all I got was a brief greenish tooltip that I didn't get to read and that's that - no GUI, no tray menu, no idea how to activate the script. OK, I went back and read the long text in the message box, found out about Scroll-Lock and pressed it. Another message box popped up asking if I wanted to... well, I didn't get the chance to read what it said because it quickly dissapeared, probably closed by the script itself - kinda masochistic, this script of yours.

So to wrap it up: it still needs a little work done in the user-friendliness area. Good luck improving it!

P.S. If you want to have it translation-aware, have a look at Compile_AHK II - it has such language-pack capabilities, although the function may be a bit buggy.

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AHK tools by Drugwash (AHK 1.0.48.05 and Win98SE)

I'm happy someone is interested in ""Halwegs Fensterpflege" vs. "window care". The interest in the german forum was very low.

But as I see, its not only a problem to have time (not knowledge) for translation. I also should have some time to support english speaking users here in the forum.

For me (and some other users) the script works very fine. I'm interested in user feedback, may be there are some nice ideas for further development.


@Drugwash: Sorry, I can not really recommend to use the script under WIN98. You should at least have some programming skills.

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A note to those that use Google or Yahoo to translate...
They often translate text inside the [code] tag too and the scripts may not run as expected.

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SoggyDog
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Well, why would you not recommend Win9x, halweg? It always served me well.

As for programming skills, I can deal with that. I could even try to translate the required strings, but I fear there might be a lot of changes needed, like implementing variables for the translatable strings, if you wanna make it language pack-aware.

The only problem is the same as yours: der Zeit.

I am interested in this script though, since I do have a few unwanted dialogs that I'd be happy to get rid of and the extremely simple script I had created for this, has no flexibility at all. At some point, I might take on improving it, time allowing.

Oh and please take my previous comments as intended: that is, constructive criticism. Thank you for your work so far!

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AHK tools by Drugwash (AHK 1.0.48.05 and Win98SE)

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