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Thanks for the function. Just what I needed. Smile

Sometimes when programming it's necessary to kill copies of Explorer. I can find out how many copies are running with this function

_GetRunningCopies(ExeName)
{
nrunning := ...

I added several features. Ini File Edit from the Tray Menu. Size of Folder windows adjustable via ini file option. The windows are staggered according to the desktop work area etc..

The link in t ...

Instead of messing around with PID use the Window Spy to get the class name of xdict window. Try that with WinActivate.

Also I would put detect hidden windows on at the top. With scripts most eve ...

try

DetectHiddenWindows, On

Also you don't check if ErrorLevel is 0

If the process wait times out, ErrorLevel will be 0.

These 2 things are in the Help entries for Process and WinActivate

The latest source is now included in the download. Any revisions will be there.

Quotidian Folders is for folders you use every day. It is yet another "open a list of folders near the mouse" utility. It has only one hotkey. Control Right Click on Explorer adds selected ...

Since a space is a legal filename character it's not the best to use as a separator. May be better to use like a vertical bar, semicolon or even have the old names on the odd lines and the new names ...

It will work with AttachConsole. But you can get anomalous behavior such as getting the prompt back while the script is still running, hanging cursor etc..

DllCall("AttachConsole", " ...

if you are going to use knowledge of the input, meaning it only works in special cases(pun intended,) why not cheat and do it the easy way?

StringCaseSense, On

txt =
(
This is a test ...

There's no rule to know what should be in a line. The only "rule" is what should be a blank line. Namely when you have consecutive line breaks. Easier to stick the paragraph into a rich edi ...

Use the dollar sign $ so that it only matches a new line that's at the end of the line. See RegExp quick reference for characters '^' and '$' in the help. The entry is right under the one for the Reg ...

Have you tried the AbsolutePath function

That's it exactly. Thanks Smile

edit: this person thinks like I do. Leverage existing functionality. Handles both folders and file paths. Main differences: ...

Anyone know how to get an Absolute Path from Relative?

I have a small recursive copy utility that copies files matching Pattern to a target directory. I'm stuck trying to figure out how to get the ...

DllCall("AttachConsole", "int", -1)
FileAppend, Goodbye`, World!, CONOUT$

I have a command line file copy routine and was looking to output to console if run from the command ...