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dwaynek
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 Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:36 pm Post subject: how do i send the % key without autohotkey thinking var |
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i wanna send a long url which has % all over it but autohotkey keeps thinking the % is the start of a variable. instead of having to put ` at every %, is there an easier way?
i thought sendraw would do the job but apparently it only passes through the {} symbols. |
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wOxxOm
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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sometimes it is possible to use ControlSetText which is faster - but only suitable for UIs.
quite often I send long texts via clipboard which is imho a lot faster than sendxxx |
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engunneer
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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`% is the right way to do it. every language has a few chars you can't use directly. %% may also work? I don't remember
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Superfraggle
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dwaynek
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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i cant even do a stringreplace because if i do:
| Code: | | stringreplace, url, url, %, `% |
i get:
Error: This parameter contains a variable name missing its ending percent sign.
i cant even define a variable like
url="http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2F&fkr=1&from=R8&satitle=%word%&category0="
without erroring out coz when i try to start autohotkey, it boots me out saying:
| Code: | the following variable name contains an illegal character.
"2Fcgi.ebay.com"
the program will exit. |
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engunneer
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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you have to escape in the stringreplace too:
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stringreplace, url, url, `%, ```%
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dwaynek
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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if the stringreplace line is placed after the url line as in:
| Code: | url="http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2F&fkr=1&from=R8&satitle=%word%&category0="
stringreplace, url, url, `%, ```% |
hotkey stops at the url line with error msg and won't proceed.
error msg is:
| Code: | the following variable name contains an illegal character.
"2Fcgi.ebay.com"
the program will exit. |
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engunneer
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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leave off the "" or use :=
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url:="http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2F&fkr=1&from=R8&satitle=%word%&category0="
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dwaynek
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| Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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| awesome, thanks! didn't work at first until i upgraded to the new ver but worked fine after that. thanks again engunneer. |
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