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[gb]

Dear all,

This is my attempt at producing a HotKeys GUI. Being still new at using AHK, I guess there are probably better HotKeys GUI scripts available already, but this is an exercise in learning by doing for me.

It is a new script and not yet fully tested, although I've been using most of today and it seems to work without many problems.

I would appreciate any constructive help and advice. I'm afraid I am quite sensitive, so please rather don't reply if you're not going to contribute something helpful or useful.

I am reading the help file, but I am finding the GUI information hard to understand, and what I think I understand has not seemed to work in practice. No criticism of the help documentation is intended - I think the limitation is in my reading and understanding.

I cannot understand how to create and use more than one GUI window in a script. I also cannot figure out how to sort the listbox so that duplicates of the hotkeys will be removed.

So my HotKeysGUI is actually two scripts - HotKeysGUI (the main window) and HKGuiEdit (the secondary window). The operation of these two scripts produces a third script called HKmain.ahk, which contains all the hotkeys and which is run automatically on exiting the main HotKeysGUI window.

I also make use of two "config" files which are "pre-pended" and "post-pended" to the HKmain.ahk file, and which add certain config thing-ies that I like to have.

I'm afraid for now these scripts are not well-documented and there are not many explanations or descriptions in the scripts as I'm still figuring out a lot of what I'm doing - I hope to post more later.

The files and scripts must be called HotKeysGUI.ahk, HkGuiEdit.ahk, HKconfig1.txt and HKconfig2.txt. The scripts are configured to use the working directory (A_WorkingDir), so I hope they will work wherever you put them. Just save them all to whaever you use as your working directory, and (obviously) include a shortcut to HKmain.ahk in your startup folder if you want the hotkeys to be available on Windows startup.

The main script creates a file HKlist.csv which stores the hotkey definitions - if you make a good backup copy, you will be able to recover your hotkeys in the event of something untoward happening.

My thanks to mallow, whose HotStringsGUI ver 0.2 was the inspiration for me to attempt this.

Known limitations:
I've tried to keep it siomple, so the hotkeys here don't test for multiple instances of a program - if you keeping hitting the hotkeys to launch IE, for example, you will run multiple copies of IE (personally, this is a feature for me).

Also, if you change your mind about adding a hotkey, do check that a blank line or a ` hasn't been inserted as it will crash HKmain.

Similarly, you might be able to use the same hotkeys twice, although I've tried to make this difficult.

Here are the scripts - I hope they will be of some use to someone else also:

HotKeysGUI.ahk:

[Chris]

[zridling]

This was nice. I'm a new user and this helped!
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