RegiOween

Hello folks! I have some questions and comments concerning what I consider some "hotkey issues" in AutoIt, so I hope I don't get misinterpreted here, especially because I'll use some similar scripting languages just as a matter of comparison, and the post is quite long, so I hope you have the patience to read it. 1) In some fullscreen applications (like games and bank apps, for example), HotKeySet doesn't work at all. However, _IsPressed inside a loop works as expected, but as we all know, if something breaks the flow of the loop (like a MsgBox, for example), _IsPressed have to wait until the next iteration of the loop, so I think there's the whole purpose of using a HotKeySet independently outside of any loop. Example: (I'm using MsgBox here just to show the inconvenience of use _IsPressed instead of HotKeySet) This theoretically should work, but it doesn't in those particular cases I described above: HotKeySet("{F11}", "Test") ProcessWait("") Func Test()    MsgBox(0, "", "Test") EndFunc This partially works, but of course, stops in the MsgBox waiting for another loop: While True    If _IsPressed("7A") Then       MsgBox(0, "", "Test")    EndIf WEnd 2) Another question is about the limitation of HotKeySet the F12 key. The help file states that "F12 is also reserved by Windows, according to its API", so I would like to know why another similar scripting languages like Lua and AutoHotkey can do that without any problems. Isn't an AutoIt limitation instead of a Windows API reservation? 3) Just to cite another example, I have a nice Logitech Gaming keyboard with the 12 standard F keys, and plus more 12 G keys, so I'm able to map those extra keys as F13-F24, supported natively by Lua scripting through the Logitech Gaming Software, or externally by AutoHotKey. My question is why HotKeySet doesn't support F13-F24, despite _IsPressed has that functionality? 4) I'm an avid Photoshop amateur user, but I don't like the way Adobe hardcode the modifier keys in their software, so I use to remap Ctrl, Shift, Alt and Win keys the way I want, but unfortunately, AutoIt doesn't have a remap function, so I have to use "that another scripting language" to do that. Assuming that remap is quite different than hotkey, any reason for AutoIt not supporting remapping natively? 5) I eventually use the MouseOnEvent UDF by MrCreator to circumvent the fact AutoIt doesn't support mouse buttons as hotkeys, but the UDF has some limitations as well, so my question is why AutoIt doesn't have a function similar to HotKeySet for mouse buttons? If you're still reading, I appreciate your effort and thank you in advance! Any comments, as always, are very welcome...

Floops, that was my first assumption, so I reinstalled Firefox with a blank profile to avoid possible "dirty remains"... I tried both 32 and 64 bit versions, with the same result, so I'm sure there's nothing to do with Firefox installation. I made a loop script to start and close Firefox with ShellExecute and WinClose, and pause with MsgBox just when window handle returns "0x00000000", and the number of occurrences were quite high. Another strange thing is that if window handle is not properly found, it's impossible to close Firefox with WinClose, no matter using title, class, whatever. Using latest versions of both AutoIt and Firefox, running on my vintage Windows 7 64-bit.

Hello folks! I know it's an old thread, but anyway, I would like to contribute with my painful, but rewarding experience... I was about to beat my head against the keyboard trying to automate some Firefox tasks using ShellExecute and some window functions like WinWait, WinWaitActive, WinGetHandle, etc. What I discovered, and I could prove myself that wasn't just an assumption, is that for some strange reason, ShellExecute randomly returns "0x00000000" as a handle for the resulting window, thus making window functions to fail. Replacing ShellExecute for Run solved the problem without any other changes to the script. You can check for youself if you will, using this little code below: This code will fail randomly ShellExecute("C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe", "google.com") MsgBox(64, "Window Handle", WinWait("Google - Mozilla Firefox")) This code will never fail Run('"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" google.com') MsgBox(64, "Window Handle", WinWait("Google - Mozilla Firefox")) I hope it helps to solve similar issues like the one I had.

Well, now I'm even more lost. Running a Windows 7 SP1 64bit here, with AutoIt 3.3.14.2 (latest stable version) running in 32bit mode. Maybe there's something wrong with my system. I'll try to find out what's going on, and keep you updated. Thanks for the help!

careca, the whole point is that the one line script I wrote as an example in the first post is working flawlessly compiled (drag & drop one or more files directly onto the script), but returns completely different values non-compiled, and I don't have a clue about the reason.

careca, your script works, but for what I'm trying to do, it has some drawbacks: 1) It uses a GUI, that I don't want to open anywhere on the screen, because my purpose is use it as a SendTo Windows shortcut. 2) It works on 2 steps, first open the script, then drop the files in the GUI 3) I tested with more than one file, but just the first filename appears on the GUI Anyway, thank you for the help!

I got a Logitech G600 mouse with 20 programmable buttons (http://gaming.logitech.com/en-us/product/g600-mmo-gaming-mouse), then what I do is remap the buttons to key combinations (like Win+F1, Win+F2, whatever) so AutoIt can recognize them. If your mouse has some driver software, probably you can try this alternative as well.

Hello, folks! Two questions about Drag & Drop: 1) Searching the forum, I found a way to make non-compiled scripts to accept drag & drop files as parameters, creating a registry key: RegWrite("HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AutoIt3Script\ShellEx\DropHandler", "", "REG_SZ", "{86C86720-42A0-1069-A2E8-08002B30309D}") This seems to be a hidden trick, since I didn't find any related references in documentation. Is there some another way to enable this feature manually, without messing with the registry? (I mean, interactively, not programmatically). 2) Suppose I have a file in the path "X:\Folder Name\File Name.ext" and the following script: MsgBox(0, "", $CmdLine[0] & @LF & $CmdLine[1]) If I drag & drop the file to the non-compiled script, I have the following undesired results: $CmdLine[0] returns: 3 $CmdLine[1] returns: X:\Folder However, if I drag & drop the file to the compiled script, I have the following desired results: $CmdLine[0] returns: 1 $CmdLine[1] returns: X:\Folder Name\File Name.ext I have tried using many combinations of single and double quotes around the path, but neither worked, so I'm asking the experts... Thanks in advance!

flibustier, take a look at _IsPressed function, the X1 mouse button has the code 05, and the X2 mouse button has the code 06, but I don't know about the extra X buttons, since they're not standard.

Hello folks! Of all the AutoIt mouse control functions here in the forum, it seems to me that MouseOnEvent UDF is the most popular, and regularly mentioned in other threads concerning this subject, so I guess this is the right place to ask. I would like to know if it's possible to assign the Win key + Mouse wheel (Up or Down) to a function, while blocking Win key to not trigger Start menu, and blocking mouse wheel to not do its normal scroll functions. I'm actually have this scenario working fairly well, but unfortunately using that other "competitor" scripting language, so I've got a weird feeling that I'm dealing with the devil... Thanks in advance, RegiOween

Melba, Again, sorry for my lack of knowledge, but trust me, I did a lot of reading about this subject, and didn't find a solution, or maybe the solution was right in front of me, and I didn't see it... About your code, I don't use SciTE, so I just replaced ConsoleWrite for MsgBox, but I guess it's ok, right? Unless I miss something, the code works, but with a big drawback: The Win key is still triggering the Start menu when I release the key, stealing the focus of the active window, and the Start menu stay open until I close it manually. I tried messing with different values of SendKeyDelay and SendKeyDownDelay, and replace the MsgBox with an actual Send, but it seems that didn't make any difference. Also, I tried replacing MsgBox for ToolTip, believing that could be something related to timing, but the issue is the same. As you can see, I'm trying to make my exercise, but as I said before, I really want to keep studying in AutoIt school, despite the lessons are quite hard to solve sometimes...

Hello, folks! I'm trying to define Win key + Mouse scroll (up and down) as hotkey in my script, but after a deep search in the forum, and many topics about set mouse events as hotkey, I still haven't found a solution to this specific scenario. I tried _IsPressed internal function, and also MouseOnEvent, MouseTrapEvent and HotKeySetEx UDFs, and all of them work fairly well, but apparently just for single mouse events, and not combined like I need to (a modifier key + a mouse scroll movement). I also read something about mouse hooks, dll call, and complex stuff like that, but my knowledge about these things is very limited, so I decided to ask here for help. What I got so far, and is working incredibly well, is unfortunately a solution that came from the "competitor" (AutoHotKey): WinWaitClose, ahk_class AppClass ExitApp #If WinActive("ahk_class AppClass") #WheelDown::SendPlay X #WheelUp::SendPlay Y It took me just minutes to learn how to do this in AHK, but it's kinda sad that with all these years coding with AutoIt, I didn't get a solution as simple as this one, but I really want to do all the code inside AutoIt, if possible of course... In case you want to know, the purpose is to use this combination of keyboard modifier + mouse scroll to change brush properties in Photoshop. Thanks in advance, RegiOween

Hello, jchd! Thanks for the quick response, and now I got your point, but I think this solution would fit just if I wanted to dynamically execute a function, but the original idea starting the post was actually create a function dynamically, using a variable content. As I stated before, I was trying to create a function after a button label, so I could use this same string in any part of the code related to the button. Something like this: $Tool = "Save_Image" Assign(Eval("Tool"), GUICtrlCreateButton("", 1, 1, 28, 28, $BS_BITMAP)) GUICtrlSetImage(-1, $Tool & ".bmp") GUICtrlSetTip(-1, StringReplace($Tool, "_", " ")) GUICtrlSetOnEvent(-1, $Tool) Func Eval($Tool) & "()" Send("^s") EndFunc As you can see, the intention was to create a function named "Save_Image()" using the content of the variable $Tool, since the variable $Save_Image was already dynamically created through Assign. Of course this code didn't work, because Func statement doesn't accept parameters in its name, so that's why I think it would be an improvement to the language if that would be possible. Anyway, Melba solution worked perfectly to me, so I'm using it in my project. Thanks again, RegiOween

jchd, Thanks to comment, but I didn't get how Execute can come closer to what I had in mind in the first time. Can you please show me some example? To AutoIt developers and experts, considering it's already possible to dynamically deal with variables using Assign and Eval, don't you think it would be a nice improvement to use parameters to create a function name?

Melba, I apologize if I wasn't clear in my first post about what I was intended to do. And your last code is much more simple and efficient (just one function for all the buttons) than what I did in my own code (one function for each button). Many thanks! Brew, I was thinking in something like this: Assign("VAR", "String()") Func Eval("VAR") ... EndFunc In this little example, I guess it would be possible to create a function called String(), based on the content of $VAR, but I was wrong, so Melba provided a much better way to handle my purpose. Many thanks for your attention! RegiOween

Brew, The main reason (not much important, I admit) is to make the task to add new buttons easier, avoid typing repeated strings. In the snippet code I gave above, if evaluated variable content would be possible to create functions, I could just label one variable with the name of the button ($TOOL in the example), and all the subsequent names could use its content. Extravagant ideas from a lazy programmer...

Melba, Thanks for the quick response, but in your example, you had to explicitly define the name of the functions anyway, and that's what I'm trying to avoid. My purpose is to build a customizable horizontal toolbar for Photoshop (it's done already, but using literal names, of course). Just a snippet below: $PHOTOSHOP = "[CLASS:Photoshop]" $TOOL = "Brightness_Contrast" $ICONS = "Icons\" $BRIGHTNESS_CONTRAST = GUICtrlCreateButton("", 0, 0, 28, 28, $BS_BITMAP) GUICtrlSetImage(-1, $ICONS & $TOOL & ".bmp") GUICtrlSetTip(-1, $TOOL) GUICtrlSetOnEvent($BRIGHTNESS_CONTRAST, "Brightness_Contrast") Func Brightness_Contrast() WinActivate($PHOTOSHOP) ControlSend($PHOTOSHOP, "", "", "^b") EndFunc This is just the code of one button, but my custom toolbar had dozens already, so I would like to avoid repeating strings every time I put a new button. If you call me lazy, you're damn right...

Hello folks! I'm trying to create a function name after a variable, so I read about Assign and Eval, but this example didn't work: $Test = "Test" HotKeySet("{End}", $Test) Assign("Test", "Test()") ProcessWait("") Func Eval("Test") MsgBox(0, "", $Test) EndFunc This test returns the message "Error: Badly formatted Func statement." I don't know if this is possible, but as an old brazilian quote says, "Ask don't hurt". Thanks in advance, RegiOween

Fikes, welcome! It's not that hard to monitor a standalone AutoIt compiled script. I use the free Sysintenals tools (www.sysinternals.com) with fairly good results, but you being a security professional, I assume you might have even more advanced tools to do this kind of task.

vaishnavi, welcome!You can try to use the window class instead window title. Suppose the window class in question is "CreativeCloud", you can use: WinWaitActive("[CLASS:CreativeCloud]")You can use the "AutoIt Window Info" tool to check the correct name of the window class, besides all other valuable information.

Hello folks! I would like to know if it's possible to send context menu commands in Firefox available when the mouse cursor is over an image, but WITHOUT actually opening that annoying context menu. Right now I'm using one of the side buttons of my mouse to trigger "MouseClick(<right-click>) / Send(<shortcut-key>)" method, but opening the context menu and sending shortcut keys doesn't work in a much reliable way, failing from time to time. I have read about FF.au3 (https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/95595-ffau3-v0601b-10/?page=1), but the topic was closed for reasons unknown for me, and by reading the docs and related posts I didn't find a way to do what I want. The commands I need are the following: - Open Link in New Tab - Copy Link Location - View Image - Save Image As I really hope you experts can give me some guidance to achieve this objective, cause by now I'm out of ideas. Thanks in advance, RegiOween

Just for the sake of simplicity. I'm actually using: MouseClick("Menu", Default, Default, 2) Send("v") The only drawback for this method is that I see that ugly context-menu popping up on the screen for a few miliseconds, but I think I can live with it for a while.

DanP2, I ended up sending double-right-click instead of single-right-click to open the context-menu, as the single-click is disabled, but I completely agree with you, this is definitely not the most reliable way to achieve my desired goal, despite it works reasonably well, so I'm still looking for a better way. Once again, thanks for trying to help.

DanP2, thanks for your response. I tested your method, and it works very well, despite a little bit more complex than mine. I can get the image url, just sending right-click to open the context-menu, and then using the shortcut keys "a" (Copy Link Location) or "v" (Save Image As). Maybe my question wasn't quite clear, but what I wish is to open the Firefox context-menu without actually sending the right-click, cause my intention is to run this script with the right-mouse button blocked, just to avoid open the context-menu when it's not required by the script. Careca, thanks for your response too, but like you already said, that's not exactly what I was looking for.

Hi, folks! Do anybody here know some way to send a "Save Image As" instruction when the mouse cursor is over an image link? My script has a hotkey assigned to this instruction, but I want to avoid to send mouse right-click to open the context-menu, is it possible using FF.au3? Thanks in advance. RegiOween