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Thanks Guest for the straightforward answers. Much appreciated.

There are many ways to help others learn. There are many ways to win friends and influence people.

Kind, polite, patient responses are my own mode. Others may choose otherwise. I'll never know why ...

Oh and maybe RTFM .... would also help Rolling Eyes

I have. It's not clear on these issues; if it were, I would not have posed my set of questions.

A minor note as regards the tone of your response:
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I'd like to call one or more ahk scripts from a running ahk script.

I'd like to be able to start and exit the called scripts. I'd like to be able to invoke any of their hotkeyed-functions.

I'd ...

There's a step I missed when writing the instructions:

Go to Plugins, DBGp, Config... and setup file mapping. If you will be running Notepad++ and AutoHotkey on the same system (i.e. not debugging ...

Howdy

I followed these instructions to set this up:

Usage:

* Launch Notepad++.
* Show the debugger pane via the toolbar or Plugins, DBGp, Debugger.
* Open the script file to be ...

Oh I've had fun today exploring this.

One path ate up a bunch of time, ultimately wasn't optimal, but taught me a lot. I implemented a general stack functionality. Then, if I append a string to my ...

I've always appended text this way; but the annoying thing is that this moves the cursor to the beginning of the control, so EditPaste has it beat in that respect too.string1 = line1`nline2`nline3`n ...

When working with AHK GUI's Inside your own code.. You really should not use 'Control'

Could you or someone else elaborate on this ? e.g., why this really should not be done ??

thx

== noob s ...

It works for me.string = line1`nline2`nline3`nline4`nline5
StringReplace, string, string, `n, `r`n, All

Gui, Add, Edit, r10 w200
Gui, Show

Sleep,1500
Control, EditPaste, %string%, Edit1, A
...

GuiControl does not have an EditPaste subcommand. I'm about to put it on the Wish List.
That would solve this particular issue quite nicely !

I want to append a string containing newline chars (`n) to an AHK GUI Edit control. I want each of those chars to trigger a new line.

If I write a string using this code

Control, EditPaste, %som ...

The simplest way is to just send (or ControlSend to be more reliable) keys. You can use the arrows to move one character at a time, and also the {Home}, {PgUp}, {PgDn}, and {End} keys.

Aha !! That ...

I have an Edit control in a GUI.

I want to move the insertion cursor around in it.

Specifically, right now, I'd like to at least be able to move it to the end (bottom) of the Edit control's tex ...

Here's a variant of the above, but this template's for multiple vars:

if 0 ; set to 1 to debug
{
scratch := ""
scratch := scratch . "Put_Some_Var_Name_Here& ...