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Chris, your work has made my work easier and my life more pleasant. The scripts I've written with the help of this community have augmented my work like nothing else I know of. I am eternally gratef ...

Not working with ver. 5.9.4 unicode. I've spent an hour trying everything in this and other threads to make it recognize autohotkey. Maybe there is something I've missed. Any suggestions are welcom ...

Can AHK send keystrokes and text strings to a running program in a second desktop is my big question?

A "yes" might have been a little more responsive. But thanks.

That doesn't resemble an answer. Do you actually have any experience using ahk with two virtual desktops? Did you read my post before writing that? Maybe you're just being cryptic?

Hi, simple question hopefully: Can AHK send keystrokes and text strings to a running program in a second desktop is my big question? I was considering the Desktop Manager from MS Powertoys collectio ...

Thanks guys! Just added this to autohotkey.ahk a very simple solution indeed!

^+#!d:: ;;delete all recent documents
FileDelete, C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Recent\*.*
Return ...

I'm sure some wizards like sean or tic will be able to do it all in ahk (perhaps you will find some info in their screenshot (sean) and or gdi+ (tic) scripts and libraries) but it if works it works :- ...

If you have irfanview you can do so via the commandline if I'm not mistaken, replace your fileread with pathtoirfanview.exe %clipboard% /clipcopy
-> copy image to the clipboard

This is a nice w ...

^!4::
Send, ^c
Clipwait
IfExist, %ClipBoard%
FileRead, Clipboard, *c %Clipboard%
Return

Question

Thanks but I don't think that works. Any other ideas?

Hi, is there any simple method for reading the content of a file (non-text, binary such as graphics or audio data) from Windows Explorer?

^!4::
Send, ^c
Clipwait
IfExist, %ClipBoard%
...

OK, little workaround, should work in my case, maybe not for others. In this instance, I search for a certain bit of text. When the text is found, it's highlighted. I can then use PixelSearch to fi ...

Any suggestions for applications that don't work with A_CaretX and Y, such as Adobe Acrobat? Reports the same position no matter what. Many have tried, all have failed Sad

So for now the answer seems ...

A_CaretX and A_CaretY: The current X and Y coordinates of the caret (text insertion point). The coordinates are relative to the active window unless CoordMode is used to make them relative to the enti ...

The documentation of Ahk is not aimed to learn programming and the language itself. Its more like dictionary. Thats why beginners have problems to learn, but pros know where they can find specific inf ...

Well I appreciate that HugoV. I'm still thinking of the many occasions I've found something that I've had to search a long time to learn about, but I can't remember any specific examples right now. ...