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I've just done some trivial testing, but it seems to be working for me. Thanks for the quick fix.

I found a problem in the script. Windows with apostrophes in their title (such as when visiting oreilly.com sites in your browser) break the script. The window list only shows the characters in the ti ...

A couple of things to add to make your file more standard (to prevent stepping on itself if it's loaded multiple times) put this at the beginning:

" For version 5.x: Clear all syntax items ...

Thanks, Chris. It works for me now in 1.0.30.02.

Thanks, Chris. It works for me now in 1.0.30.02.

I just upgraded from AHK 1.0.26.1 to 1.0.30.00 and this wonderful script stopped working. I don't know what the problem is, but rolling back to v1.0.26.1 causes it to work again. I'm using the latest ...

Thanks for posting that. The "Nostromo SpeedPad n52" sounds great, especially with all the uses he has in mind for it!

That's my blog referenced above.

I haven't made as much use of the SpeedPa ...

When I run into situations like this, I hand off the math to a program like Perl or even a C# console app. I pass in variables on the command line and read the output back into the AHK script. I haven ...

[url=http://www.vim.org/]vim can do this, too, and has again won text editor of the year from Linux Journal. It's available for Windows, too, and does a very nice job there.

But, like emacs, it ...

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Maybe the script doesn't make sense to you. But the essence of tools like AutoHotkey is to personalize the user experience. Alt-Space-M may be something you know and that works well for you. ...

That simple example script is very powerful. Thanks for posting it.

The solutions you proposed are the way to do it in this case. Specifically:
WinGetClass, active_class, A
IfInString, active_class, WindowsForms10.Window
WinClose, A

I wasn't aware of the W ...

I use RSS Bandit (www.rssbandit.org) as my RSS reader. I have a script in AHK that, whenever I click both the left and right mouse buttons, it sends a command to close the window in whatever Web brows ...

Thanks for the suggestion, Chris, but that doesn't work for me because I'm looking up addresses from a global address book rather than from my Contacts. I can pull up that address book with the built- ...

Has anyone had any success using AHK to set the focus to rich edit controls in Outlook 2003?

In particular, I'm interested in setting the focus to the Find Contact edit control in the toolbar or th ...

I have multiple command prompt windows open and I want to copy files from one to the other without having to type in paths
I find that comment mysterious. AFAIK, command prompt itself can do not ...