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[Boskoop]

This script makes a listbox which can be searched incrementally.
The choosen item is assigned to a variable for further processing.
I needed it as part of a larger script.

I used Keyboardfreak's script "iswitchw - Incrementally switch
between windows using substrings" as a template. Nearly all the code comes
from that script. Only the errors er mine. Thanx Keyboardfreak!

Knowing nearly nothing about programming, it took me quite a long time
to extract the code I needed from Keyboardfreaks script (11 pages, printed!).
So I decided to post it in case others have the same problem and may find it useful.
Boskoop

[Chris]

I've a feeling this will be useful. Thanks.

[keyboardfreak]

Good idea. Two comments:

[Rajat]

nice script! and a good addition to my scriptlet library!
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[Boskoop]

Thanks for your kind feedback. This was actually the first time I did post anything else but stupid questions.

@keyboardfreak: Your "iswitchw"-script i a treasury full of useful subroutines. Thanks again for it.

I noticed that "input" grabs all the keyboard input. It's no problem for my script (a keyword-tool, which sends the chosen item to a given control). But you are right- it may pose a problem in other applications.

I'm not sure, maybe it's possible to use an edit control instead of "input".

Another issue is that this gets really slow when using long lists. Its unusable for one of my lists with>20.000 keywords . I have no idea how to resolve this (except for buying a faster computer...).

Boskoop

[ratz]

Great script! Question: How can i make this work with multiple words. I noticed that when i type a {space}, the character isnt shown in the listbox. Is this necessary to make tbe script work?

for example, if i put in the boskoop.tmp file, "railway station" and "railway stationary," the script wont let me go to the second word. Or if i put "railway student," there is no way of choosing this.

Is there anyway of making this work? Thanks.

[PhiLho]

Good idea, but the code is a bit outdated, no need for Input now: the Edit control can fire an event on each typed key.
Here is my take at this kind of script:

[ratz]

Wow PhiLho! Perfect. Exactly what I was looking for. Works great, and much cleaner.

For the "FillListBox" routine, I can read these from a text file right? Ill try...

Thank you very much. Greatly appreciative.

[fast]

great script!
Is there any way to make one script for read a txt file with a list of word eg:
able
about
above
across
act
action
actually
add
added
adding
and when I type "dd" see in the edit all the word content "dd" (in this case, add added adding,
like an "autocomplete" but in all position of the caracters) with istant refresh?
TNX

[scriptmonkey]

Anyone know if someone made a script like this :

I have about 16,000 PDF files with unique filenames in a folder, but some of them revisions. Examples: 1234.pdf, 1234_00.pdf, 1234_01.pdf, etc. I would like the user to be able to type a filename they are looking for, and the script searches for all files with that #. So if the user types 1234, all files thta start with 1234 will show up in the search. The user would then be able to double-click any of the filenames to open the PDF.

[fast]

ReallyUltraFast 320mph, sorry 3200mph Wink
10x-1000x more fast

http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic3010.html&highlight=320mph&start=75

[Guest]

I've adapted the subroutine WordRetrieve to send the item of the list (see )

;Assigns the chosen item to the variable "Choice".
WordRetrieve:
Gui, submit, noHide
GuiControlGet, Choice ; Retrieve the ListBox's current selection.
Gui, Hide
Send, %Choice% ; adaption
ExitApp
return

I have ot insert many items one after another. How do I restart the listbox automatically without hotkey?

Thanks in advance

Dirk

[MsgBox]

Here is a similar script of Laszlo's that I've found to be very useful.
Incremental search for text to send

I made a list of all AHK commands and added it to List=

[Boskoop]

The script that used "Listbox with incremental search" made some progress since february 05. Unfortunately I got stuck in the middle of the english translation (no time because of nice weather, work, and a lot of other projects) so I posted it in the German forum.

Kollektor is a crossbreed between clipboard tool and text module tool. You can add highlighted text to the phrase list by pressing CTRL-Capslock. Pressing Capslock shows a list of phrases. You can filter it by typing part of a word. By pressing "Enter" the phrase is inserted in the last active text-window.



There seems to be some interest in the functionality- so maybe someone finds this useful. You can download it here. Both the script's comments and the helpfile are in German. But I'm working on it...

Boskoop

[robiandi]