Crooksy211 Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 hi guys, I set myself a task to write my friend a copy and paste script she could use with autoit on her mac. she has cerebral palsy and can not easily press the shortcut keys. I've managed to get the copy selected text to work, however, I can't seem to be able to get the text to paste when she presses the f5 key, please can you help me? thanks script: HotKeySet("{ESC}", "_Mouse_Exit_App") Global $f_mouse_is_down = true Global $i_mouse_primary = 0x01 ; 0x01 = left for primary, 0x02 = right Global $h_mouse_mod, $h_mouse_timer $h_mouse_timer = _Mouse_StartWatch($h_mouse_mod, "_Mouse_GetHighlight_ToClipboard", "int", "", 0, 10003, 10) While 1 Sleep(100000) WEnd Func _Mouse_GetHighlight_ToClipboard() If Not $f_mouse_is_down Then Local $a_getasync = DllCall("User32.dll", "int", "GetAsyncKeyState", "int", $i_mouse_primary) If Not @error And BitAND($a_getasync[0], 0x8000) = 0x8000 Then $f_mouse_is_down = True While Not @error And BitAND($a_getasync[0], 0x8000) = 0x8000 Sleep(50) $a_getasync = DllCall("User32.dll", "int", "GetAsyncKeyState", "int", $i_mouse_primary) WEnd Send("^c") Sleep(100) $f_mouse_is_down = False EndIf EndIf Return EndFunc Func _Mouse_StartWatch(ByRef $h_mod, $s_func, $v_ret_type, $v_params, $h_wnd, $i_event_id, $i_event_time) $h_mod = DllCallbackRegister($s_func, $v_ret_type, $v_params) If @error Then Return SetError(@error, 1, 0) Local $h_timer = DllCall("User32.dll", "int", "SetTimer", _ "hwnd", $h_wnd, _ "uint", $i_event_id, _ "uint", $i_event_time, _ "ptr", DllCallbackGetPtr($h_mod)) If @error Then Return SetError(@error, 2, 0) Return $h_timer[0] EndFunc Func _Mouse_StopWatch($h_mod, $h_timer, $h_wnd = 0) DllCallbackFree($h_mod) DllCall("User32.dll", "int", "KillTimer", "hwnd", $h_wnd, "int", $h_timer) If @error Then Return SetError(@error, 0, 0) Return 1 EndFunc Func _Mouse_Exit_App() Sleep(100) If IsDeclared("h_mouse_mod") Then _Mouse_StopWatch($h_mouse_mod, $h_mouse_timer) Sleep (100) Exit EndFunc HotKeySet("{f9}", "paste") HotKeySet("{esc}", "quit") Func paste() ClipPut(^V) Send(^v) EndFunc ;==>paste Func quit() Exit EndFunc ;==>quit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators JLogan3o13 Posted August 5, 2014 Moderators Share Posted August 5, 2014 Just out of curiosity, since support for Mac, Linux, etc. is on the NOT ToDo list, how are you planning on getting this to work for your friend? http://www.autoitscript.com/trac/autoit/wiki/AutoItNotOnToDoList "Profanity is the last vestige of the feeble mind. For the man who cannot express himself forcibly through intellect must do so through shock and awe" - Spencer W. Kimball How to get your question answered on this forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crooksy211 Posted August 5, 2014 Author Share Posted August 5, 2014 when I googled it, it said this worked on a mac o.O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crooksy211 Posted August 5, 2014 Author Share Posted August 5, 2014 can you recommend a software that could get this to work please? I wrote it in AHK first and managed to get it to work on there, but again not mac compatible Just out of curiosity, since support for Mac, Linux, etc. is on the NOT ToDo list, how are you planning on getting this to work for your friend? http://www.autoitscript.com/trac/autoit/wiki/AutoItNotOnToDoList Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators JLogan3o13 Posted August 5, 2014 Moderators Share Posted August 5, 2014 My guess is you'd have to use something like AppleScript, although I have not supported Mac in a long time. It is not surprising that AHK does not work either - AutoIt uses the WinAPI (which is why it works only on Windows). Any language, like AHK, that is a theft branch of the original is going to have the same constraints "Profanity is the last vestige of the feeble mind. For the man who cannot express himself forcibly through intellect must do so through shock and awe" - Spencer W. Kimball How to get your question answered on this forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crooksy211 Posted August 5, 2014 Author Share Posted August 5, 2014 ok thanks Well I'm glad I managed to get the copy and paste to work on windows I'll still make her a collection of window short-cuts until i can get access to her mac as she has windows too (and I can use them too), but I think I'm going to stick with AHK it's easier to understand in my opinion, but maybe because i've used it for years, and only started to us autoit thanks for your help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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