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jordis
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 Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 10:56 pm Post subject: 1.0.17: About the new caret recognition... |
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Hi all...
Chris, very very useful the caret function, it adds an estra degree of control over applications  it's essential for the script i'm working with!
I was trying it out running the example script you provided in http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Variables.htm#Caret:
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SetTimer, WatchCaret, 100
return
WatchCaret:
display_y = %A_CaretY%
display_y -= 20 ; Move tooltip up a little so as not to hide the caret.
ToolTip, X%A_CaretX% Y%A_CaretY%, %A_CaretX%, %display_y%
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and I noticed something weird: sometimes I seem to lose the left button doubleclick ability in my mouse (in Windows Explorer for example)  Firt try was increasing the SetTimer, and it seems to help, but still sometimes doubleclick works and sometimes doesn't... anybody noticed something similar? should i start looking for a new mouse? 
Also, I see the caret is detected nicely in Notepad, UltraEdit, but as you say in the Help file, it doesn't seem to work in MS Word nor in this same browser window from which I'm typing this (wait, it does not seem to work in Firefox, but I just tried in IExplorer and it does... probably some bug in Firefox?  Anyway, what are the limits of the new caret function? Is Word beyond the scope of the implementation?
And lastly, what is the tooltip in the example script is reporting when it doesn't find a caret in the active application?
Thanks for this release again!
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Chris
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| Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | sometimes I seem to lose the left button doubleclick ability in my mouse |
Displaying the tooltip window so many times per second is what causes the double click issue. To alleviate this, maybe it's possible to use WinSetTitle directly on a tooltip window. I believe Rajat has experimented with addressing tooltips as though they were normal windows.
| Quote: | | probably some bug in Firefox? Anyway, what are the limits of the new caret function? Is Word beyond the scope of the implementation? |
The Windows API function GetCaretPos() is called to discover where the caret is. A_CaretX and Y simply reflect whatever the function reports. I suspect the problem might be that some apps use a non-standard caret.
Although I know of no other ways to discover where the caret is, perhaps there are some messages that can be sent to a window to determine such info. This is reminiscent of Rajat's SendMessage Tutorial, though that approach might not help in this case. Maybe some prowling of the newgroups and Google is in order. Volunteers?
| Quote: | | what is the tooltip in the example script is reporting when it doesn't find a caret in the active application? |
The variables should be blank if the caret position cannot be determined. However, I've noticed that they're hardly ever blank, so it seems that GetCaretPos() returns bogus or non-meaningful caret positions for some apps or under some conditions. For example, there is usually a caret position even when there is no caret!
Edit: fixed typo
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Chris
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| Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 12:39 am Post subject: |
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| Your comments got me thinking about it again. I made a few minor corrections (that probably don't affect 99% of things), and fixed "CoordMode Caret" in a newly updated installer. |
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