HotKey with Marked Text as Arguments

[mistabirdy]

Hello Community,

I like to mark a text and press a hotkey than one programm/script should be called and give this programm/script the marked text as argument to do something.

How can I realise this?

Creating Hotkey is not a problem. I can even create a normal windows shortcut and assign a hotkey.

The question is, how to pass the marked text as an argument.

[water]

Where do you mark the text? In a GUI you created with the AutoIt script, in an Office application (word, excel ...), in a browser ..?

[mistabirdy]

It can be anywhere. Word, Excel, Web Browser, Texteditor, AutoIt GUI ...

[Mikeman27294]

What I would do (probably not the best way to do it tho) would be like this:

HotKeySet("^q", "_HotkeyPressed") ;The hotkey is CTRL+Q and the function name is "_HotkeyPressed"
While 1 ;Just an infinite loop until the program exits
WEnd
Func _HotkeyPressed()
    $PreviousClipboard = ClipGet();Used to prevent data loss when running the function
    Send("^c")
    $Argument = ClipGet()
    Switch $Argument ;We are using a switch here because the variable we compare to will always be the same
        Case "Argument1" ;If the selected text was argument 1
            MsgBox(0,"",'Selected text was "Argument1"')
        Case "Argument2" ;If the selected text was argument 2
            MsgBox(0,"",'Selected text was "Argument2"')
        Case "Exit"
            MsgBox(0,"","The program will now exit")
            Exit
        Case Else ;If the selected text was not covered by any of the previous case expressions
            MsgBox(0,"",'Selected text was "' & $Argument & '"')
    EndSwitch
    ClipPut($PreviousClipboard);Ensures that the user doesnt lose any data on their clipboard
    Return
EndFunc

I haven't tested this but there isn't a doubt in my mind as to whether it will work or not.

[mistabirdy]

Thank you very much Mikeman!! It's working

It's working ... maybe It could have problem if there is a object/image copied in the clip. But I don't care about this

[Mikeman27294]

Yeah, that's true. I might be able to think of a way that it might be able to get image URLs, but what sort of objects are you referring to?

[somdcomputerguy]

You should put some Sleep in the While...WEnd loop, at least 10.., to avoid CPU bashing.