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- 26 Oct 2024, 18:13
- Forum: Ask for Help (v1)
- Topic: Strange hotstring problem Topic is solved
- Replies: 14
- Views: 978
Re: Strange hotstring problem Topic is solved
I'm happy to report that, at least on my Windows 11 system, the stuttering/incomplete hotstrings issue in the "Metro" Notepad app seems to have completely disappeared following a relatively recent update, without any of the various (unsatisfactory) additional settings that have been suggested here a...
- 26 Oct 2024, 17:50
- Forum: About This Community
- Topic: Issues with registering, Post your username here...
- Replies: 872
- Views: 2589229
Re: Issues with registering, Post your username here...
Thank you, @joedf: I'm back, Baby!
Jacques.
Jacques.
- 15 Mar 2024, 11:34
- Forum: Scripts and Functions (v1)
- Topic: Get current explorer window path
- Replies: 31
- Views: 18012
Re: Get current explorer window path
Yes, it does work in Win10 for me.
JB
JB
- 15 Mar 2024, 07:42
- Forum: Scripts and Functions (v1)
- Topic: Get current explorer window path
- Replies: 31
- Views: 18012
Re: Get current explorer window path
Anybody know whether a similar approach is available to get the path of the directory currently displayed by standard File Open or Save dialogs? Despite the similar appearance, they're not shell window objects, but are they some other sort of object with readable properties?
Thanks.
JB
Thanks.
JB
- 15 Mar 2024, 07:33
- Forum: Ask for Help (v1)
- Topic: Capturing the current Explorer window's full path Topic is solved
- Replies: 3
- Views: 375
Re: Capturing the current Explorer window's full path Topic is solved
Perfect, thank you!
- 12 Mar 2024, 16:37
- Forum: Ask for Help (v1)
- Topic: Capturing the current Explorer window's full path Topic is solved
- Replies: 3
- Views: 375
Re: Capturing the current Explorer window's full path Topic is solved
That looks great. Crossing my fingers that it still works in Windows 11 (I'll post once I know).
Thanks a LOT for the quick reply!
JB
Thanks a LOT for the quick reply!
JB
- 12 Mar 2024, 16:22
- Forum: Ask for Help (v1)
- Topic: Capturing the current Explorer window's full path Topic is solved
- Replies: 3
- Views: 375
Capturing the current Explorer window's full path Topic is solved
In Windows 10, capturing the full path to the folder displayed in the active Explorer window was as easy as getting the text content of its address bar using ControlGetText, var, ToolbarWindow323, A which returned something like say Address: C:\Program Files\Common Files , independently of Explorer'...
- 03 Mar 2024, 16:40
- Forum: Ask for Help (v1)
- Topic: WinWaitActive false positive Topic is solved
- Replies: 2
- Views: 192
Re: WinWaitActive false positive Topic is solved
Are you kidding me?! I must have read that page a hundred times over the decades and never noticed that particular caveat. I guess I've rarely needed the title text to identify windows, relying instead on window IDs, PIDs, and classes, but this time around, it became unavoidable.
Thanks, buddy!
JB
Thanks, buddy!
JB
- 03 Mar 2024, 15:16
- Forum: Ask for Help (v1)
- Topic: WinWaitActive false positive Topic is solved
- Replies: 2
- Views: 192
WinWaitActive false positive Topic is solved
The following command triggers on any dialog of the specified class (typical shell dialogs class #32770) belonging to the process with PID %ePID% (confimed as the correct PID) but regardless of its title text, so not only on the " Save HTML Document " dialog but also the " Font " and " Color " dialo...
- 26 Oct 2023, 18:05
- Forum: Scripts and Functions (v1)
- Topic: Windows 11 Classic Context Menu via Right-Double-Click
- Replies: 2
- Views: 732
Re: Windows 11 Classic Context Menu via Right-Double-Click
Gets rid of unnecessary icons in the resulting executable (the program only uses two icons). Remove those lines if you don't care, or correct the path to wherever you keep ResHacker.exe ("Resource Hacker", from angusj.com)
JB
JB
- 24 Oct 2023, 15:23
- Forum: Scripts and Functions (v1)
- Topic: Windows 11 Classic Context Menu via Right-Double-Click
- Replies: 2
- Views: 732
Windows 11 Classic Context Menu via Right-Double-Click
I thought I'd share this short one: while running, it displays any Explorer item's "classic" extended context menu when the item is double-clicked using the secondary mouse button (right-single-click still has the expected behavior, and right-drag & drop shouldn't be affected). This provides a singl...
- 09 Oct 2023, 14:50
- Forum: Ask for Help (v1)
- Topic: Launching a shortcut "as admin" Topic is solved
- Replies: 2
- Views: 640
Re: Launching a shortcut "as admin" Topic is solved
Wow, just realized that your first suggestion wasn't working for me because, by a quirk of how I was assembling the Run parameter, there were two spaces between *RunAs and path\shortcut.lnk , which yields a "file not found" error and was the reason I posted the question in the first place. Thanks fo...
- 09 Oct 2023, 12:43
- Forum: Ask for Help (v1)
- Topic: Launching a shortcut "as admin" Topic is solved
- Replies: 2
- Views: 640
Launching a shortcut "as admin" Topic is solved
Is there a more direct way to launch a shortcut elevated than
i.e. without the help of CMD and without extracting & launching the target of the shortcut? I can't think of any.
JB
Code: Select all
Run, *RunAs cmd.exe /c "path\shortcut.lnk",, Hide
JB
- 01 Apr 2023, 20:55
- Forum: Ask for Help (v1)
- Topic: Send/SendRaw issue
- Replies: 4
- Views: 717
Re: Send/SendRaw issue
Great minds ... That's exactly what I wound up doing, except that I used the more traditional Loop, Parse, ... command (still on v1.1).
Thanks for the reply.
JB
Thanks for the reply.
JB
- 31 Mar 2023, 11:47
- Forum: Ask for Help (v1)
- Topic: Send/SendRaw issue
- Replies: 4
- Views: 717
Re: Send/SendRaw issue
I'm pretty sure Send, {Text}... is one of the things I already tried (based on the documentation's "this improves reliability because the characters are much less dependent on correct modifier state" ) but, if memory serves, the result was a mess that looked nothing like what I was trying to send (I...
- 31 Mar 2023, 10:27
- Forum: Ask for Help (v1)
- Topic: Trigger a picture control g-label via keyboard?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 918
Re: Trigger a picture control g-label via keyboard?
Thank you both for all the suggestions. I'll do some testing when I get a chance ... ... but now that I come back to this question with fresh eyes, a simpler thought occurs to me: create a size 0 x 0 button at the expected tabstop position of the picture control (i.e. add the button immediately afte...
- 31 Mar 2023, 10:11
- Forum: Ask for Help (v1)
- Topic: Send/SendRaw issue
- Replies: 4
- Views: 717
Send/SendRaw issue
I use a hotkey to "paste" the current clipboard contents into the window with focus by sending keystrokes, very useful for app windows that don't support a normal paste function (such as certain remote session windows and consoles), which comes in handy to enter complex passwords, long URLs, etc. wh...
- 22 Mar 2023, 22:14
- Forum: Ask for Help (v1)
- Topic: FileExist() "blind spots" Topic is solved
- Replies: 2
- Views: 365
Re: FileExist() "blind spots" Topic is solved
Excellent, Mikey! That'll work very nicely. I'd considered that but using the parent folder with a wildcard (like Loop, Files, C:\* in this case) but that seemed highly inefficient to check for a single file's existence-- totally forgot that a single file can be specified (event though I frequently ...
- 22 Mar 2023, 21:16
- Forum: Ask for Help (v1)
- Topic: FileExist() "blind spots" Topic is solved
- Replies: 2
- Views: 365
FileExist() "blind spots" Topic is solved
This may have been reported previously, but some files that manifestly exist (for example C:\pagefile.sys and C:\swapfile.sys) are not detected as existing by FileExist() (which returns an empty string) or even by the old IfExist command, yet are fully recognized by Attrib.exe (which correctly displ...
- 13 Mar 2023, 10:12
- Forum: Ask for Help (v1)
- Topic: Trigger a picture control g-label via keyboard?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 918
Re: Trigger a picture control g-label via keyboard?
Thank you both for the replies. Yes, a custom hotkey will do the trick, but what I was wondering was whether there was "Windows native" way (of which I was unaware) to trigger a picture control action, and I guess the answer is no. Microsoft is usually pretty good at making sure that things can be d...