Custom Query

something like this would be great. whenever you type a word (abbreviation) it gets automatically expanded.

RegisterHotString("btw","bytheway") RegisterHotString("fyi","for your information") etc

Thank you Jon for AutoIt. My life would be meaningless without this program.

I didn't have the time to check through all of the functions in these (or other) UDFs, but I'm quite sure there are more:

In _GUICtrlListView_InsertItem function:

If _WinAPI_InProcess($hWnd, $_lv_ghLastWnd) Or ($sText = -1) Then
   $iRet = _SendMessage($hWnd, $LVM_INSERTITEMW, 0, $pItem, 0, "wparam", "ptr")
Else ; not our control

should be:

If _WinAPI_InProcess($hWnd, $_lv_ghLastWnd) Or ($sText = -1) Then
   If $fUnicode Then
      $iRet = _SendMessage($hWnd, $LVM_INSERTITEMW, 0, $pItem, 0, "wparam", "ptr")
   Else
      $iRet = _SendMessage($hWnd, $LVM_INSERTITEMA, 0, $pItem, 0, "wparam", "ptr")
   EndIf
Else ; not our control

Other text related functions in GuiListView.au3 are probably coded the same.

In _GUICtrlTreeView_GetText function:

If _WinAPI_InProcess($hWnd, $__ghTVLastWnd) Then
   DllStructSetData($tTVITEM, "Text", $pBuffer)
   _SendMessage($hWnd, $TVM_GETITEMW, 0, $pItem, 0, "wparam", "ptr")
Else

should be:

If _WinAPI_InProcess($hWnd, $__ghTVLastWnd) Then
   DllStructSetData($tTVITEM, "Text", $pBuffer)
   If $fUnicode Then
      _SendMessage($hWnd, $TVM_GETITEMW, 0, $pItem, 0, "wparam", "ptr")
   Else
      _SendMessage($hWnd, $TVM_GETITEMA, 0, $pItem, 0, "wparam", "ptr")
   EndIf
Else

Original thread: ​https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/209074-dllstructs-created-in-one-scope-gets-dropped-if-chained-with-a-function-that-returns-a-re-structured-by-pointer-version-of-it

GUICreate('')
Local $unreliable_data, $reliable_data, $intermediate_ref, $labelunreliable = GUICtrlCreateLabel('',0,0,400,25), $labelreliable = GUICtrlCreateLabel('',0,30,400,25)
GUISetState()
HotKeySet('{esc}',quit)
While True
      $unreliable_data = parseStruct(createStruct())  ; struct technically goes out of scope, this saves a "slave struct" but the master struct gets dropped when it goes out of parseStruct's scope
      $intermediate_ref = createStruct()              ; struct scope gets transferred, this is a "master struct"
      $reliable_data = parseStruct($intermediate_ref) ; a "slave struct" of a master struct that is scoped here
      Sleep(100)                                      ; wait some time for garbage to get written into the freed memory 
      GUICtrlSetData($labelunreliable,DllStructGetData($unreliable_data,'msg'))
      GUICtrlSetData($labelreliable,DllStructGetData($reliable_data,'msg'))
WEnd


Func createStruct()
     Local $struct = DllStructCreate('char[16]')
     DllStructSetData($struct,1,'hello world')
     Return $struct
EndFunc

Func parseStruct($struct)
     Return DllStructCreate('char msg[16]',DllStructGetPtr($struct))
EndFunc

Func quit()
     Exit
EndFunc

The question is, should create-by-pointer structs count as valid references? I can imagine that if it is change to be so, it might cause headaches with ad-hoc throwaway "lens" structs unintentionally preventing the memory from being freed if the programmer is expecting it to not count as valid references. I guess it's up to you to decide on which tradeoff to pick.