I'm late on the topic (I've been busy myself! More than a year!! :cry: ) but yeah great news! I hope you can start working again on the v2 gui redesign. The API is really awesome. Unfortunately, the latest version I compiled from source is crashing when handling a button event! :eh: But yeah it's re...

Awesome! Thanks!

I couldn't, using the latest binary from the first post in this thread, or my own based on fincs' latest source. hmmm... ok, perhaps the OS I'm using (Windows 7 Professional 32-bit) might be a factor. I don't know. I keep getting an empty string in place of 'strlower(chars)'. But that's ok, I'm usi...

hmmm... I do like fincs' gui api. Honestly, I refrained a lot from developing gui programs while I was using v1. I don't know, it just looked very complex to me. Stuff like g-labels, and v variables always kept me going back to the help documentation until I finally gave up. With this new api plus v...

Thanks! You're welcome. :D I checked the source code for AHK v1 and v2 and they both seem to implement WinWaitXXX by using a C++ "for loop". Checking the active window every 100ms causes negligible CPU usage. Each check takes perhaps 1µs. Probably less, because my benchmarks include script overhead...

Have you seen the photo? It appears text in pink colour and I don't know why? The pink background at the opening " and at the closing " I assume indicates an invalid string, but don't panic, the string is valid it's just that your editor does not support continuation sections written in this manner...

You probably didn't understand that this loop { id := winexist("A") if (id = ""){ ; seems to be not necessary... sleep 10 continue } wingettitle, t,% "ahk_id " .id msgbox,% a_index . " " . t winwaitnotactive,% "ahk_id " . id } waits (at winwaitnotactive). winwaitnotactive does not cause much cpu lo...

its clever but how is it any different from using a loop/timer in a regular script? you are still doing continuous polling with while Newly launched threads (timers, hotkeys, GUI events) in the main/master script won't be able to interrupt it since it's in its own thread/process. Perhaps I didn't m...

Is it possible to detect window activation/deactivation without relying on the shell hook messages (HSHELL_*)? Btw, I did consider using a timer but it somehow looks inelegant to me since I would be executing code which would most of the time just return the same result (no activation/deactivation d...

DavidP, when "down" is appended to ANY key, not just modifiers, it will cause the sent keys to be "pressed down". e.g: {b down} causes 'b' to be pressed down. When "up" is appended, it releases the key. "ab" is a sequence, "{a down}{b down}" is a simultaneous press of the keys a and b and they will ...