AutoHotkey Community

[thomasl]

A slightly more polished version to emulate filemenus. Error checking is still minimal, but this version can send keys and run programs or websites etc. Comments and suggestions are welcome; perhaps this can be coaxed into doing more than just sending keys and running things.

WARNING! TO RUN THIS YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE TWO THINGS:

1. The file with the menu definitions MUST contain real tabs.
2. Versions prior to 1.0.36 of AHK have a subtle bug that makes this script unusable. Grab the current version if there's a problem

The code reads a file called Filemenu.txt, whose format is described further down. This file contains the menu definition(s); you can define as many menus as you want (or rather as you have hotkeys). Don't forget to separate menuname and hotkey with a real tab; the same's true for menu entries and command code and parameter: no tabs, no fun. (I know that's a rather poor choice but it makes the parsing of the menu file very straightforward. And it looks not half bad in an editor.)

If you use the Filemenu.txt as shown further down, have a window active that accepts more than one line of input before you press #1 and pick a menu option.

@Chris: I think you'll see why I wanted {wait} and {setkeydelay} as Send parameters: this would make it possible to use them in these menus. But I think I can figure out something in the sources as they're pretty well documented.

[Guest]

I cannot make it work?

Error on Line 17
Not a valid hotkey

But I copied and pasted from the script provided?

Anybody have any ideas of how to fix?

[thomasl]

Hm... it works here, for a good few weeks now, without a glitch

Did you make sure that the menu definitions are valid? If you forget to use real tabs between the elements (as described in the file) you will get this message.

Take an editor that does not convert tabs to spaces and type the following two lines:

menu: TestMenu[[TAB]]#1
test[[TAB]]S[[TAB]]test

but make sure you replace each of the three [[TAB]] with a real tab. Save the file and test again with Winkey+1 as hotkey. If it works, fine;if not, mea culpa. I'll have a look then.

Perhaps I should change the script so that it doesn't use tabs as separators.

[enrica]

Hi thomasl, your script is very useful, the part with R run perfectly, but part S not at all, I belive because editor is not active, (I try with 4 different editor)
now I try to insert an "WinActivate, NoteTab Light," but show error.
How can solve?

[thomasl]

If R works then the whole thing should work because the logic is the same for S and R.

What S does is just send a string to the foreground window (ie. the window that was active before the menu option was selected).

I use this feature not only in an editor but also to do logins on the web, select directories in open/save dialogs etc. And it works perfectly.

[thomasl]

Sorry: I also forgot to mention that there is a subtle bug in AHK in versions prior to 1.0.35.10 (I think).

This bug means that the foregorund window is not properly reactivated. Just download the newest version, install and all should be ok.

[enrica]

Yes, now work!
Is only version problem.
Thank you, ciao!
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[thomasl]