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[silkcom]

I'm looking to create a keyword launcher, I need some help.

I want to create a key buffer, i.e. if they type in 't' 'e' 's' 't' then I want the buffer to hold the word 'test', if however they type 't' 'e' [space] 's' 't', I want the buffer to hold the word 'st'. Space, clicking, backspace etc should clear the buffer and have it start again.

Does anyone know how to code this? (as a test it would be nice if the code also showed a constant tooltip of the current buffer if it's not empty)

thanks to anyone for help, I'll be sure to share the end project/code if I can ever get it working just right.

[SKAN]

Not well-tested:

[Razlin]

lookup

input and tooltip in help.

have your endkey be a space

that should get you going..

post other questions once you get going.
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[silkcom]

Awesome, let me look at that. I'm sure i'll have tons of more questions.

[silkcom]

First off, that was EXACTLY what I asked for, and incredibly quick, thank you.

How would I have more than one end key? I want it to detect all keys, and do 1 of 2 things with each key: 1) clear the buffer (if it's not a letter), 2) add to the buffer.

I'd also like the ability to clear the buffer on mouse clicks.

[SKAN]

[silkcom]

Ok, here's what I have so far. First problem:

I want it to be able to type in a keyword, the example here is 'ff'. Then if they hit tab I want it to launch the program. Easy enough, only problem is, that I want to send Tab if they ever hit tab without it being part of the keyword. Problem is that the way I have it, the tab becomes an infinite loop. Is there a way to fix this, or supress the tab and use ~Tab???

[SKAN]

[silkcom]

Doesn't that still allow the Tab to be pressed? I want the tab to be ignored if it's part of a word. Also, for future reasons i've changed a little of what you have, i'll paste the code when it's all working to show you what I mean.

[silkcom]

Ok, here's my code thus far

So far, I'm able to do almost everything I wanted "version 1" to do.

It's easy to add more, and it's working well.

Things I still want for version 1
1: Tab needs to be suppressed
2: When they launch the program, the word should be removed from whereever it was typed
3: Store the keywords in a file

Version 2 will be the gui .

Here's the code:

[silkcom]

Ok, i fixed the file part,

Now I just need the Tab to be suppressed if used to launch a program, and for the letters to be removed (if I'm typing along and type ff{tab}, i want the ff to be removed). Then version 1 is done and I can start on the GUI.

thanks again for all your help (and for any help anyone else may give)

here's the new code:

[silkcom]

Ok, here's version 1, let me know if you can think of any improvements: