counter for hotstrings Topic is solved

[Acromotive]

I am curious if anyone has developed a counter for time saved using hotstrings?

I have a ahk file that I run to save time typing repetitive phrases. Each time I use a hotstring such as "lol" for laugh out loud and it expands I would like the program to add 1.5 seconds to a counter showing how much time I saved using the hotstring.

Any ideas?

[BoBo]

I'd guess you're from the States being that much into statistics

[arochon]

Great guess haha

[GeneBene]

I'd guess you're from the States being that much into statistics

reviewing the statistics will eat up all the time he saved

[arochon]

I have installed this on several computers at my work and would like to know average amounts of time saved/usage of the program per person.

I love the hard time you guys are giving me but would appreciate some real feedback or ideas to go about this using autohotkey.

Thank you

[GeneBene]

I have installed this on several computers at my work and would like to know average amounts of time saved/usage of the program per person.

I love the hard time you guys are giving me but would appreciate some real feedback or ideas to go about this using autohotkey.

Thank you

try this, you can also send the data to a file this is just so you can demo, remember, when the script restarts the old data is lost unless you saved to file

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::lol::
SendInput, laugh out loud
timesaved += 1.5
msgbox, %timesaved%
return

[arochon]

GeneBene - thank you for the help this is perfect!

::lol::
sendinput, laugh out loud
timesaved += 1.5
return


::
sendinput, roll on floor laughing
timesaved += 2.3
return



F8::msgbox, %timesaved%

[arochon]

Now the next step is to apply an amount to all hotstrings then figure out a way to convert %timesaved% to display to a gui in format of hours, minutes, and seconds

[jeeswg]

Here's a way:

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:*:abcj-::
:*:abcm-::
:*:abcz-::
vHotkey := RegExReplace(A_ThisHotkey, "^:.*?:") ;remove first two colons and the text in-between
vHotkey := SubStr(vHotkey, 1, -1)
if !IsObject(oArray)
	oArray := Object("abcj", "abcdefghij"
	, "abcm", "abcdefghijklm"
	, "abcz", "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
	, "", "")
vText := oArray[vHotkey]
vLen := StrLen(vText) - StrLen(vHotkey) - 1
;SendInput, % "{Raw}" vText
SendInput, % "{Text}" vText
MsgBox, % "you saved " vLen " key presses"
return

[GeneBene]

Now the next step is to apply an amount to all hotstrings then figure out a way to convert %timesaved% to display to a gui in format of hours, minutes, and seconds

this page has info on turning seconds into what you want https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/FormatTime.htm see last example there

[jeeswg]

The Format function can also be useful for displaying times, see: FORMAT FUNCTION EXAMPLES here:
jeeswg's characters tutorial - AutoHotkey Community
https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=26486

[arochon]

I added this as suggested but I am having issues with %timesaved% not being a whole number of seconds. For instance %timesaved%= 3.500000 which is not a valid input for (number of seconds)

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::lol::
sendinput, laugh out loud
timesaved += 1.5
return


::rofl::
sendinput, roll on floor laughing
timesaved += 2.3
return



; The following function converts the specified number of seconds into the corresponding
; number of hours, minutes, and seconds (hh:mm:ss format).

f8::MsgBox % FormatSeconds(%timesaved%)  ; 7384 = 2 hours + 3 minutes + 4 seconds. It yields: 2:03:04

FormatSeconds(NumberOfSeconds)  ; Convert the specified number of seconds to hh:mm:ss format.
{
    time = 19990101  ; *Midnight* of an arbitrary date.
    time += %NumberOfSeconds%, seconds
    FormatTime, mmss, %time%, mm:ss
    return NumberOfSeconds//3600 ":" mmss
    /*
    ; Unlike the method used above, this would not support more than 24 hours worth of seconds:
    FormatTime, hmmss, %time%, h:mm:ss
    return hmmss
    */
}

[arochon]

::lol::
sendinput, laugh out loud
timesaved += 1.5
return


::
sendinput, roll on floor laughing
timesaved += 2.3
return

timesaved := Round(timesaved)

F8::MsgBox,% FormatSeconds(timesaved)

[arochon]

Found 1 issue with this method....

when using

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::rofl::
sendinput, roll on floor laughing

First letter capitalization is not recognized. Typing rofl is the same as If you type Rofl = "roll on floor laughing" or ROfl = "roll on floor laughing". You have to Type ROFL to get = "ROLL ON FLOOR LAUGHING"

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::rofl::roll on floor laughing

If using this format, which I would like to be able to do, you can command the first letter to be capital or not by typing "Rofl" vs "rofl"

Any ideas? Thanks in advance for any help. I would like to accomplish the counter idea without disrupting the capitilization features of the hotstring.

[BriHecato]

Is this what you looking for (options for hotstrings)?

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:C:rofl::roll on floor laughing
:C:Rofl::Roll On Floor Laughing
:C:ROFL::ROLL ON FLOOR LAUGHING

[arochon]

Thank you BriHecato.

I tried adding the "C" option earlier... but did not make 3 different entries. The following code worked and accomplished both tasks.

To clarify:

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:C:aat::
sendinput, ambient air temperature{space}
counter += 1
return

:C:Aat::
sendinput, Ambient air temperature{space}
counter += 1
return

:C:AAT::
sendinput, AMBIENT AIR TEMPERATURE{space}
counter += 1
return