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[Hawkwing]

I'm trying to create a script to make shortcuts. For example, I could create a shortcut for "ila" so that when I press those keys in that order it deletes that and sends "i love autoit". I don't know a whole lot about how to do this, all I've got is the main gui. I'm planning on making it so that you can hit the new button and have it create a child gui for the shortcut and the text that it will write. Same for the edit button, except that it will have a delete button to delete the shortcut. I was planning on using an ini to store the shortcuts. I can do most of the stuff myself, but I have no idea how to create the listview items.

Opt ("guioneventmode", 1)

$gui = GUICreate ("Hotkeys", 220, 386)
GUISetOnEvent ($GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, "guievent", $gui)
$listview = GUICtrlCreateListView ("Hotkey|Text Written                        ", 5, 5, 210, 320)
$buttonnew = GUICtrlCreateButton ("New Hotkey", 5, 330, 210, 23)
$buttonedit = GUICtrlCreateButton ("Edit Hotkey", 5, 358, 210, 23)
GUISetState (@SW_SHOW, $gui)



Func guievent()
    Switch @GUI_CtrlId
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
        Case $GUI_EVENT_MINIMIZE
            WinSetState ("Hotkeys", "", @SW_MINIMIZE)
    EndSwitch
EndFunc

Edited March 25, 2009 by pigeek

[picea892]

Hi

Take some time and mess around with _ispressed and hotkeyset. Once you get that running, then start working on adding in your GUI.

Below are two script fragments to get you started. Type ILA and it will give you a messagebox stating I Love Autoit. What you will next need to add is something to reset $i, $l and $a if any other key is pressed.

CODE

HotKeySet("i","ifunc")

hotkeyset("l","lfunc")

hotkeyset("a","afunc")

hotkeyset("{esc}","enditall")

global $i=0, $l=0, $a=0

$dll = DllOpen("user32.dll")

While 1

sleep(100)

WEnd

Func ifunc()

$i=1

EndFunc

Func lfunc()

if $i=1 then $l=1

EndFunc

Func afunc()

if $i=1 and $l=1 then MsgBox(0,"","I LOVE AUTOIT")

$i=0

$l=0

$a=0

EndFunc

Func enditall()

Exit

EndFunc

CODE

#Include <Misc.au3>

global $i=0, $l=0, $a=0

$dll = DllOpen("user32.dll")

While 1

if _IsPressed("1B", $dll) then exit

if _IsPressed("49", $dll) then $i=1

if _IsPressed("4C", $dll) and $i=1 then $l=1

if _IsPressed("41", $dll) and $i=1 and $l=1 then

MsgBox(0,"","I LOVE AUTOIT")

EndIf

sleep(100)

WEnd

[Hawkwing]

Hotkeyset won't work. If you set a as a hotkey and then press it while the script is running, it starts the function, but it doesn't send a to whatever your typing.

I think I can get _IsPressed to work, but don't know how to convert the variables to the ispressed thing (i=1B, l=49, and so forth).

[Tvern]

Hotkeyset won't work. If you set a as a hotkey and then press it while the script is running, it starts the function, but it doesn't send a to whatever your typing.

I think I can get _IsPressed to work, but don't know how to convert the variables to the ispressed thing (i=1B, l=49, and so forth).

When you set a hotkey, AutoIt captures the key-press and does not pass it on to the active application, with one exception: the Lock keys (NumLock, CapsLock, and ScrollLock) still toggle their respective state!

To Send() a key combination which will trigger a HotKeySet() event, either use ControlSend() or unregister the HotKeySet() event, otherwise, the Send() event may trigger an infinite loop.

; capture and pass along a keypress

HotKeySet("{Esc}", "captureEsc")

Func captureEsc()

; ... can do stuff here

HotKeySet("{Esc}")

Send("{Esc}")

HotKeySet("{Esc}", "captureEsc")

EndFunc

I can think of 3 ways to try this, all with their shortcomings. You could register WM_KEYDOWN, which requires your gui to have focus, use _Ispressed, which requires you to figure out if the same key is pressed multiple times, or if the key is just held down a while, or hotkeyset, which requires you to hotkey every character you want to use and pass it on afterwards.

Personally I'd go for hotkeying.

You might have a hard time getting help on the subject btw, as autoit dev's try to avoid getting associated with keyloggers.

Edit: Have a look at the example I PM'd you.

Edited March 30, 2009 by Tvern