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neogna2

I found that programs including task manager that extract icons will lag or freeze when it loads, close task manager if you have it open, load it and you will see. programs like process explorer pre load icons before they show you the gui, try running it, you will see before the gui loads takes som...

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Still trying to solve this. I searched for mentions of similar problems with ExtractAssociatedIcon in other programming languages but found no similar case. I next tested if doing something else with the files before the icon extraction would help. Tried both of these before the icon extraction. Fil...

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If we in Win10 hide the Desktop icons and then click on the Desktop (the void where the Desktop icons were) then AutoHotkey sometimes does not detect ahk_class Progman ahk_exe explorer.exe as the active window. As a result hotkeys that use #IfWinActive ahk_class Progman do nothing after that click. ...

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I found a thread from the old forum with code to change the font weight (and maybe also other font characteristics such as italic, underline, strikethrough) of individual rows in a GUI ListView. https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/17007-change-font-weight-in-listview-row-using-customdraw/ It would be...

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I have done a bunch of further tests using the other DllCall extraction methods. The same lag problem occurs with all of them. :( To test the issue with these other methods replace this line hIcon := DllCall("Shell32\ExtractAssociatedIcon", "Ptr", 0, "Str", A_LoopFilePath, "ShortP", iIndex := 0, "Pt...

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I'm using Ahk apps as much as I can, but for this task I still use third party app (even if a bit old). Maybe it will give you some comparing data. Thanks, I'll have a look. Do you use that tool also when you want to quickly add icons to ListViews inside an AutoHotkey script? That's my use case here.

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Here are test scripts for others to reproduce the issue. speedtest_hicon_dllcall.ahk #NoEnv SetBatchLines, -1 ; speedtest_hicon_dllcall.ahk ; testscript to reproduce lag/freeze in DllCall icon extraction on first extraction (per file) after a PC reboot ; How to use ;- First create 20 compiled dummy ...

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I don't think the problem is the real-time protection. Some other factor could very well be the root cause of the problem, but excluding the test folder in real-time protection does make the issue go away here. I've verified that multiple times on two PCs. But perhaps there is some particular issue...

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Using ANSI-version of winapi does not make sense with unicode AHK. Try this: Thanks. I really need to sit down and learn how to use DllCall properly :oops: The corrected unicode DllCall code you posted does not solve the problem however. Some files still lag/freeze during the call. After more tests...

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I run into lag/freeze issues when extracting many icons for use in a GUI ListView. For example the problem is very noticeable on my PC in a folder with ~300 files, many of which are .exe files. This sample code isolates the problem on my PC. For some files the ExtractAssociatedIconA step is very fas...

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To add some features I inject into it AutoHotkey.dll with my code. Such inject causes GetFinalPathNameByHandle hanging. However, handle.exe works without any troubles. Ok, that's beyond my troubleshooting ability. The function has worked fine in my VLC script so far. If the function only runs into ...

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Thanks for line comments. Unfortunately I noticed that the function GetFinalPathNameByHandle() hangs in some cases, that makes the script unresponsive. If I have time, I'll think about a workaround. Describe a case when it hangs and I can try to help troubleshoot it. Would adding try prevent the han...

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Thank you very much teadrinker! I added code to get the single filepath to the video currently playing in VLC. Your function works reliably in my tests. In cases where more than one VLC window is open we can just add a step to get the PID from the VLC window that is active, or some other such condit...

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The Microsoft Sysinternals tool Handle can show which files are in use by a process. For example we can call it from a script to get the files used by the VLC video player like this RunWait %comspec% /c ""C:\dir\handle.exe" -p "vlc.exe" > C:\dir\text.txt" We can also narrow the search with a filefra...

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In general I wish that defaults where made more visible in the docs in a consistent way and when possible placed near the top, close to the yellow syntax boxes. E.g. a standardized phrase or color for marking what the default is and/or for text that describe defaults. Some of the docs pages use "(de...

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The first request seems reasonable. I will add such a button. However, I think that this button is enough because it will offer several possibilities to retrieve the link, e.g. by right-clicking the button, selecting properties and copying the link there (which of course is not as convenient as wit...

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Two convenience requests for AutoHotkey.chm (the AutoHotkey Help file). 1. Toolbar button that gets the URL to the web version of the current help file page and opens it in the default browser. 2. Toolbar button that copies that URL to clipboard. The script below copies the URL to clipboard. But a T...

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SKAN, is this function the same as what is done by following Microsoft's procedure to safely remove hardware in Windows 10? Look for the Safely Remove Hardware icon on the taskbar. If you don't see it, select Show hidden icons . Press and hold (or right-click) the icon and select the hardware you wa...

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This is great! Is it possible to make a LiveThumb out of one whole screen (include all the windows visible on that screen) or out of one XYWH rectangle area of a screen? To display on another screen also connected to the PC.

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Thank you, I really appreciate that you're so helpful and post all these great resources in the forum. I had missed that Acc_ObjectFromPoint optionally accepted an X Y screen position as parameters. For example x := 200, y := 150 oAcc := Acc_ObjectFromPoint(vChildID, x, y) That approach works well i...

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Re: Lag/freeze problem in DllCall to extract many icons for display in ListView

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