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[z3lig]

Greetings,

I'm new to AHK and programming so please bear with me as I struggle to get through the various learning curves.

I'm trying to develop an application with AHK that allows a user to send a text string to an application. I've developed an interface that allows the user to select options that determines what text to send and input variables for the text string.

There are a few challenges for me here, mainly with getting the app to send the text to the right application, in the right spot. The closest thing I've found here on the forums is a post by shimanov > http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic6795.html where he uses ControlGetFocus and ControlSendRaw to accomplish something similar.

Here are the problems I'm having and I really hope someone here can start me in the right direction:

1. I can't get shiminov's method to work in my code.
2. Although I'm unable to get it to work with my code, I've tested his and I noticed that after the text is inputted in the last active control, I have to manually activate the window to continue typing in that control. I'd like to be able to start typing without having to manually activate the window
3. I'd like to be able to send multiple strings to the last active control. If you run my app, you'll see that you can select different strings. Lets say you select "script1" to send, click "Sendtxt" and then select a different script (or even the same) and click "Sendtxt" again. If you run, shiminov's script, you'll find that selecting "Insert Name" twice in a row does not work. My concern is that by selecting different tabs in my interface, or making selections in menu, the application loses track of the target control.
4. The text input speed with ControlSendRaw seems somewhat slow. Is there anyway to speed this up?
5. Lastly, is shiminov's method the best for my application?



My Code:

[SKAN]

Download and try AHKOSK Onscreen Keyboard.
That app inputs to a target window without taking the focus off
Are you seeking similar functionality ?

[z3lig]

Oh my. Yes, it seems so. I'll now have to see how micha accomplished this - seems like this may be over my head but I'm certainly up for the challenge.

Thanks for the tip. Z

[SKAN]

[engunneer]

The source code was included in the download last I checked...
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[z3lig]

No, the source was not in the last distribution.

[engunneer]

the older version was at a different link and is still available: http://www.autohotkey.net/~Micahs/kb/kb.zip
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[Micahs]

The source code is back in the zip. Sorry! I was compiling for a friend and forgot to add the source. I took the exe out. Thanks for noticing!

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[z3lig]

Micahs/All,

Thank you very much for your support.


Micahs,

I've reviewed your source and believe I understand it in concept (you're intercepting the mouse events to keep focus on the target app - I apologize if this is an oversimplification) but before I try to implement your solution, I wanted to try using timers with WinGet to get the active window every 100ms. If the active window id is different from my application's id, I send a WinActivate to that id and perform a SendInput.

Unfortunately, this is not working for me and would like to solicit help from the forums.

Code attached. Thanks in advance. Z

[z3lig]

Hello, Again,

I was able to find a similar solution here:

http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4234&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc

But I'm still having difficulty putting it all together. I realize this thread is getting a bit lengthy for what I need so I'll try to summarize:

At this point, I'd like to apply to my gui, see above, the ability to detect the last active window (or input control) by monitoring active window every 100ms. If the id returned by the timer does not equal the id of my AHK app, I will know that that is the value I should use to send the text to.

[z3lig]

finally figured it out but for some reason the edit control envokes its own ahk_id when you input text. dropdown, buttons do not do this. Anyone know how I can work-around this? Also, is this by design?