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Thank you for your reply RussF . I can clarify a few things. Pasting anything to the tab will do nothing. That is why you must first click into the edit window. Allow me to clarify. Here are my steps for replicating the problem I described: 1 - Run the AutoHotKey code in my first post; 2 - Open Wind...

Context: Windows 11 Pro x64 (Eng) v23H2 OS build: 22631.3447 AutoHotkey x64 v2.0.13.0 Notepad++ v8.6.5 64-bit Greetings. I wrote a script that does multiple tasks, one of them uses the clipboard to type the current date. It saves the current Windows clipboard, then replaces it with the current date,...

Ah... now I see it: that last return is not part of the if block. Agreed, that was a rather stupid thing I did. So it would be like this: Base64PNG_to_HICON(Base64PNG, width := 0, height := 0) { size := StrLen( RTrim(Base64PNG, '=') )*3//4 if DllCall('Crypt32\CryptStringToBinary', 'Str', Base64PNG, ...

Understood gregster, thank you.
If I decide to post an updated version of the code, I shall do it in a new reply.

Thank you for your feedback. It's ok, but there are a few remarks. (...) Although not a programmer, I have written many short scripts (batch and bash mostly) for over 20 years as a Systems and Network Administrator, and I was always a stickler for writing good consistent code, so I really do appreci...

Wow, it works perfectly! Thank you teadrinker! I added back the 'width' option, and then thouroghly tested it, and it seems to be working fine. I am posting it here, in case anyone wants to use it for images that are not exact squares: Base64PNG_to_HICON(Base64PNG, width := "0", height := "0") { siz...

Context: Windows 11 Pro x64 (Eng) v22H2, OS build: 22621.1702, AutoHotkey x64 v2.0.2.0 First time posting here, so apologies if I am doing something wrong. I am now trying to implement an icon encoded with base64 in my script instead of referencing an external (ico) file. Yes, I know that I can comp...