AutoHotkey Community

[freakkk]

I've been using autoit/autohotkey to create little time saving scripts for myself for a long time now. This is really my first attempt at making a gui to interface w/ them-- thought i would share..
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Working in a helpdesk type environment-- I found that too much of what I was doing was repetive. The data entry screen we use has its own built in macro editor-- but is limited in functions. I wrote this univeral macro editor to help automate everything repetetive I found myself doing.

-HOTKEYS:-
WIN+<1-9 & 0 (above letters & on side numeric keyboard)> -- These are set as 'hotkeys' that perform whatever action you assign it from built in editor.

-Actions-- Send keystrokes, minimize/maximize/resize windows, run programs/urls/anything you can create shortcut to, mouse clicking/moving..


.. setting a window function through built in editor..


.. now when you hit 'win+1' that window will be activated..


WIN+NUMERIC - (<--MINUS BUTTON ON NUMERIC PAD) -- Whenever hotkey is pressed-- it will take screenshot & save it as a JPG. (i used it to take these screenshots..)

-AUTOEXPAND:-
this allows you to set up keyboard triggers that magically expand when typed.


-AUTOCOMPLETE-
This allows you to create a custom dictionary of commonly used words or phrases. Whenever prog. dectects that you are trying to type one of those words-- it will show autocomplete (hit 'shift+enter' to accept..)


-- Download Slave 3.03.exe --
just put script in its own folder & run (screenshots are saved in that folder by default..)
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I realize that there are already similar scripts posted on the forum. This was more a learning project for myself--
Let me know what you think...
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[Chris]

Nice screenshots. It looks like you've put together a nice framework for a macro/hotkey/hotstring assistant.

This is starting to look a little like the IDE (integrated development environment) some people have been asking about. Such a tool would basically be a GUI front-end for building general-purpose scripts.

Thanks for sharing it.

[Titan]

I like the many different features like screen capture - makes things easier thanks.

[Dragonscloud]

That is an awesome GUI, very professional-looking.
I was going to work on a front-end to AHK for hotstrings -on-the-fly, but I don't think I'll bother now. Your script fills that functionality.
Excellent tool. Thanks for sharing it.
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[toralf]

Hi freakk,

thanks for sharing.

[webber]

one of the most impressive and useful tools I've seen. Especially like the screen shot grabber.

Suggestion/question:
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In the autocomplete, if more than one word has similar initial characters, is it possible to show a list of terms and allow user to select choice ? Making it more like intellisense ?

thanks for the tools.

[freakkk]

toralf-
I was originally using a small cmd line app called 'clip2jpg.exe' that was posted by someone on forum (i believe it was bobo actually..)-- but for some reason I can't seem to find the original post now. All it did was convert contents of clipboard to filename you specify. Then when I decided to do the partial snapshot- I decided to use the cmd line options of irfanview.

http://www.irfanview.com/

Heres what I have in this script (there is plenty to cleanup & refine-- but it works.. )

[webber]

[Thalon]

Applikation works fine!

@Chris
This applikation is also a good example for the performanceproblem of X-Button!
If I close the Gui via X-Button it takes several seconds.
If I use Okay or Cancel it works quite fast!

Thalon

[webber]

can't seem to get the autoreplace to work with this string

[freakkk]

well-- if you use the auto expand (hotstrings..).. you can put this:

[webber]

that works!

Sorry, I keep calling it "auto replace" but in your slave it is "auto expand"
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winxp pro sp2
AHK v1.0.38.02

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One man's preacher is another man's terrorist

[webber]

when scrolling through a list of words for autocomplete, there is a problem with pressing the shift key five times as it triggers "sticky keys" from windows.

Is there a place where I can change the scrolling effect to be something other than the shift keys ?

Extracting this from the exe makes for one very large hard to read ahk file. I presume it isn't all one big script in the source code, but is made up of include files. Is the source code for all of this available ?





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winxp pro sp2
AHK v1.0.38.02

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One man's preacher is another man's terrorist

[corrupt]

@webber: You could turn off the option to activate the sticky keys menu when shift is pressed 5 times...

[webber]