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Also, Controlget doesn't always work. Leef_me I don't know what's so difficult to understand. I was hoping some function like this that has nothing to do with the clipboard. I'm not sure If It can be ...

Thanks Lexikos, never would have thought of that.

I understood the question, and I know what he's trying to do. I use the clipboard in the same capacity.

Highlight text, copy it, use it in the AHK script to do something with it, or not, or to mak ...

I have searched but there's no solution rather than using the clipboard to get it. Anyone knows of any function that can retrieve the selected(highlighted text) as a variable without using the clipboa ...

Just right after setting calling Setparent I can't seem to get any output of the GUI. for example: my function here locks a window by placing a Transparent GUI inside the Active Window. but my Unloc ...

Winet,ID: Retrieves the unique ID number (HWND/handle) of a window.
http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/WinGet.htm

The FindWindowEx function retrieves a handle to a window
http://msdn.micro ...

@AHKisthebest

Yup, that did it, runs as smooth as it can get. thanks

I know that the guys at donationcoder made a show-dialogs script with ahk. you may want to check that out.
http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/index.html#ShowDialogsToo

I already tested it individually and it worked. Now the problem happens when assigning scrollock a function to do something.
Ex. In this case I want to lock/unlock the active window by pressing scrol ...

I have assigned and remapped the scroll lock to do something different but at the same time I want the scroll lock state( the flashing lights) to work. I can't get them to work. Why is this? is there ...

EDIT: FIXED

going to leave my working code for future reference.

#Persistent
ModuleHandle := DllCall("GetModuleHandle", "str", "shell32.dll")
hIcon ...

I've been trying to set my GUI an icon that resides on the shell32.dll file but my code doesn't seem to work. Anyone who ever done this kind of stuff?

#Persistent

Module = C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM3 ...

In general, How can I redraw the entire taskbar buttons?

Does this work on windows 7?, I'm just getting an empty MsgBox

Thanks for that. Would you please help me out I really don't know how to start.