Script to add plugin to FF

[MileHiDave]

Hello,

This script should work. I admit, I am still fairly new to V2.

Any pointers as to what I did wrong, or to scripting help, would be appreciated:

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#f::
{If WinExist('ahk_class MozillaWindowClass')
	Send "^T"
	Sleep 500
	SendInput "{Raw}about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox"

	Sleep 500
	Send "{Tab 6}"
	WinWaitActive ("firefox.exe")
	SendInput  "{Raw}C:\Dir1\Dir2\manifest.json"
	Send "{Enter}"
}		

Thanks,
Dave

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This script should work.

Good to be confident, I guess. Several things that I spot:

Don't send a capital letter for ^t because it can cause it to hold Shift as well.

Don't put a space between a function name and the open parenthesis that follows it when calling a function.

This is most likely the showstopper: The process name is not the window title. To use the process name for the WinTitle parameter, it needs to be preceded by ahk_exe:

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	WinWaitActive ("ahk_exe firefox.exe")

In case you're expecting a difference between Send and SendInput, the default Send mode in v2 is already Input, so there's no need to use SendInput as long as you don't change the mode.

Do you realize that the only line that's conditionally executed after the if is the one immediately following it since you didn't group multiple lines into a code block? Your indenting would suggest that you expect everything after it to be conditional.

There may be other issues regarding timing and expecting windows to be come active.

[MileHiDave]

The code, I think, should work now but I am still having issues:

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{
if WinExist("ahk_class MozillaWindowClass")
{
	WinActivate
	Send "^t"
	Sleep 500
	Send {Text}"about:debugging{#}/runtime/this-firefox"
	Sleep 500
	;Send "{Tab 6

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	WinWaitActive ("ahk_exe firefox.exe")
	Send "{Raw}C:\CHCLSNExtensions\HCLSNExtensions\manifest.json"
	Send "{Enter}"
}
}

The codeblock after the if statement should all run. That is my understanding. Not a dev here just an AHK hack wannabe.

I am getting this error:

FF_Addon_FF_Started.ahk (14) : ==> Missing space or operator before this.
Specifically: "about:debugging{#}/runtime/this-firefox")

I have tried double double quotes: ""about:debugging{#}/runtime/this-firefox""
I have tried: "about:debugging`#/runtime/this-firefox"
I have tried Send {Raw} "about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox"

My google fu is not strong.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks


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@MileHiDave - Please don't make any more posts that contain code without adding [code][/code] tags! Here is how you do it:

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The code, I think, should work now but I am still having issues:

You keep saying this as if you feel confident in your grasp of AHK syntax, but the various things you have posted have not met basic expression syntax rules. You have not tried simply putting quotes around the entire literal string as shown in many examples in the Send documentation:

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	Send "{Text}about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox"

I don't think you really wanted the { } around the #, especially since you specified text mode.

My google fu is not strong.

Your problem is you're googling instead of starting with the AHK documentation where you would have seen very clear examples on exactly this.