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[TheGood]

Take a look at the script for the remote control (it's in the second post of this thread).
A basic script template would be like this:

[coleprime]

I haven't even gotten a chance to fondle what looks to be an amazing script you wrote yet, but if I may make a suggestion? I've been developing an autoplaying/checking/healing script for myself that plays those clickety-clickety online games for me while I sleep/eat/poop/live/etc. (heh...). A User Library of my own functions has been building in the process at %A_MyDocuments%\AutoHotkey\Lib, and I'd recently been looking to expand potential, which led me to your script here. I'd like to put AHKHID.ahk in the Lib folder and forget about it for when I use it.

As we know, #Include can only take %A_ScriptDir%, %A_AppData%, and %A_AppDataCommon%. Hell, there isn't even a %A_UserLibDir%, so I had to create the obvious global vars missing from AHK:

AHK_AhkConstants() {
Global ; Use global vars

A_AhkDir := SubStr(A_AhkPath, 1, InStr(A_AhkPath, "\", 0, 0) - 1)
A_StandardLibDir = %A_AhkDir%\Lib
A_UserLibDir = %A_MyDocuments%\AutoHotkey\Lib
}

Anyway, I've noticed that the following lines exist in even your example.ahk files:

;You have to put the #Include line in the auto-execute section because of the constants used.
#Include %A_ScriptDir%\AHKHID.ahk

...and this factor is still making true Library status impossible (as in: I don't want to have to leave it in my script dir, and I don't want to directly reference my Lib folder in my scripts). Might you make the following changes to AHKHID.ahk?

Add this...
OR AHKHID_SetConstants()

...in this comment line at [XXX]...
You have to put the #Include line [XXX] in the auto-execute section if you would like to use the constants.


Add this line...
SETCONSTANTS:

...before here...
;___________________________________
;Flags you can use in AHKHID_GetDevInfo


Add this function...
AHKHID_SetConstants() {
Global
If !(RI_MOUSE_WHEEL)
Gosub SETCONSTANTS
}


Now you can leave AHKHID.ahk in your Library folder and all your executing scripts would henceforth include the following lines instead:

;You have to put the AHKHID_SetConstants() line in the auto-execute section because of the constants used.
AHKHID_SetConstants()


In practice, my changes don't even break the #include method, but gives it true Library status. I can't wait to use your script in mine though, thanks so much for all your hard work.

-Cole

[coleprime]

Edit: I made my post a bit tidier, sorry I hadn't used phpBB in a while. Would a mod remove my last post for cleanliness please?

I haven't even gotten a chance yet to fondle what looks to be an amazing script you've written, but if I may make a suggestion? I've been developing an autoplaying/checking/healing script for myself that plays those clickety-clickety online games for me while I sleep/eat/poop/live/etc. (heh... just my library file has grown over the past 2 months to 37k, or 28k with dox & changelog removed). A User Library of my own functions has been building in the process at %A_MyDocuments%\AutoHotkey\Lib, and I'd recently been looking to expand potential, which led me to your script here. I'd like to put AHKHID.ahk in the Lib folder and forget about it for when I use it.

As we know, #Include can only take %A_ScriptDir%, %A_AppData%, and %A_AppDataCommon%. Hell, there isn't even a %A_UserLibDir%, so I had to create the obvious global vars missing from AHK:

[TheGood]

coleprime, that's a very good idea! I'll update the scripts soon.

Thanks for your input!

[TheGood]

OK, I updated AHKHID as well as all the other examples. They now use AHKHID_UseConstants().

[Steffi]

Sorry, I'm absolutely new to AHK and hope to solve some of my special button issues.

But when I want to start the Example 1 I get the error "Call to nonexistant function" form AHKHID_UseConstants().

So I put "#Include %A_ScriptDir%\AHKHID.ahk" into Example 1 but now I get the error "The same variable cannot be used for more than one control" in Line 015 vMyTabs.

What do I have to do?

[TheGood]

Hello Steffi,

You can use AHKHID in two ways. You can either put it in one of your library folders, or you can manually #include it.

However, if you put it in one of your library folders and you want to use the constants, you will have to call AHKHID_UseConstants(). If you manually #include it, there is no need to call this function (this is why you were getting the second error, however, I fixed that possibility now).

The Examples assume that you have AHKHID in one of your library folders. However, you can also add an #include directive (like you did) and it should work fine as well (now).

Make sure to clear your browser's cache before redownloading AHKHID.

[Steffi]

Thank you very much, it works!

Now, I really spent most of today reading through this thread and AHK documentation and tried scripts in this thread. I failed miserably so far.
What I have so far is:

[TheGood]

[Steffi]

Wow, that is soo cool! Thank you! It works and I can't believe I didn't look into AHK earlier. If I had spent all the time looking to assign hotkeys in different software into AHK I could solve all my wishes already.

After I had the code running, I pasted the script into my other hotkey file under #IfWinActive, VLC.

Of course that didn't work (because of autoexecute and return which i don't understand yet).

So I have to use IfWinActive under the button-assignment.

But would it make sense (if possible) to have the whole script under an "IfWinActive" so that it is not running all the time? Isn't it checking for inputs and registering the HID all the time and thus using up ressources? I only need it while VLC is running.

Of course I could just start the script together with VLC, but I'm curious if my idea about ressources is right and I want to have all my (future) scripts and hotkeys in one file running all the time.

[TheGood]

Glad to hear that it works!

[Big Digger]

It is possible to detect with AHKHID when the keypresses occurs on the numpad or not? I mean the following virtual keys:

[TheGood]

Hey Big Digger,

Thanks for reporting this. Turns out I had a typo in Example 2. I fixed it now, so it should show the proper values for Flags.

[Big Digger]

Recently I found a very interesting application at http://www.sysnucleus.com/

[cracksloth]

I was wondering if someone could help me out. Basically, I'm trying to create a quick test script based off of TheGood's remote script that will just paste the raw values and then press enter. I wanted to use this method rather than the recommended editing of Example #2 because when I get it to work, I can just continue building on the same script to accomplish what I need.

Also, it took me forever to figure out that the remote example in the second post no longer works with the AHKHID version in the first post because of the recent addition of the prefix AHKHID rather than the old prefix HID. For the inexperienced (like me), it was a pretty frustrating experience of massive trial and error!! blah!

Anyway, my code is below. Can anyone figure out why I'm not getting the code? It just pastes " " after every keypress.