{"id":6652,"date":"2021-01-19T09:30:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T09:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/?p=6652"},"modified":"2021-01-25T15:34:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T15:34:06","slug":"ahk-tools-general-useful-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/max-drake.cc\/?p=6652","title":{"rendered":"AHK tools, general useful items"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been exploring AHK a bit further, specifically in the area of using GUI’s to use an interface to help access information and do things. After looking at a few tutorials on YT I think I’ll need to get my head around some functions. As you need to action some sort of action to a GUI item. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

AHK GUI interface tools<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

There are some good video courses out there and a couple of tools for creating the actual GUI interface. The first is AutoGUI<\/a>, <\/strong>but that would not run on my Surface Book as the resolution was too high and just shut down. Also you download it from Sourceforge and it’s a .7z zip file that I had to unzip online. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other tool is SmartGui Creator<\/a><\/strong>. Another Drag\/drop and size interface then you cut\/paste the GUI code into your script and start linking to it with your code. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another I found on pastebin AHK GUI Creator<\/a><\/strong> is also quite nice, very simple. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AHK Link creator<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I saw someone in a video use a pop up box to create a link. There is this article<\/a><\/strong> on the topic, but I wanted a pop-up box so that I could add the URL in and then another box to put the text I wanted to be the link so created the Alt+1 code that adapted the code from the article above which is sort of Alt+2:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

!1::  ;Alt+1\n  Sleep, 100\n  InputBox, UrlLink, \"New Link\", \"Put a new URL in box \"\"\n  InputBox, Texty, \"New Text\", \"Put a Word\/String for what you want to read\"\n  ;nTab:= \"\"target=\"_blank\"\"\"\n  Sleep, 50\n  clipurl := \"<a href=\"\"\" UrlLink \"\"\" ><strong >\" Texty \"<\/strong><\/a>\"\n  SendInput {Raw}%clipurl%\nReturn\n; First copy URL, it goes to clipboard\n; Next Select text you want to make the link to\n!2:: ;Alt+2\n  Sleep, 100\n  clipurl := clipboard ; This takes URL from clipbd and assigns to var\n  Send, ^c ; This copies the selected\/highlighted text in the doc, again to clipboard (so overwrites the URL)\n  Sleep, 50\n  ;clipurla := \"<a href=\"\"\" . clipurl . \"\"\">\" . clipboard . \"<\/a>\"\n  clipurla := \"<a href=\"\"\" clipurl \"\"\"><strong >\" clipboard \"<\/strong><\/a>\"\n  SendInput {Raw}%clipurla%\n  clipboard := clipurl\n  clipurl =;\nReturn<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
It only works in my Emails when I’m in HTML tab. In Notepad, if I save as .html it will work there too. So, you have to be in programme where you want the text to be written, then hit Alt+1 (my Hotkey, popup box for link, then after OK another popup box for Title, then on Ok for that box it creates the string you can paste into HTML for it to work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<a href=\"C:\\Users\\drake\\Downloads\\______Screenshots\\2021-01-20 12_13_13-_New Text_.jpg\" ><strong >The big wahoony<\/strong><\/a><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
  There is also a button in HTML to use instead, I’m thinking of trying this out with signature for emails, with buttons instead of links: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
 <button onclick=\"document.location='https:\/\/www.w3schools.com\/html\/html_links.asp'\">HTML Tutorial<\/button> <\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
An elaboration on this is to create a Button for people to click to go to: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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!3:: ;Be in Text area Put a new URL in box (OK) Put a Word\/String for what you want to read (OK)\n  { Sleep, 100\n    InputBox, UrlLink, \"New Link\", \"Put a new URL in box \"\"\n    InputBox, Texty, \"New Text\", \"Put a Word\/String for what you want to read\"\n    Sleep, 50\n    clipurl := \"<a href=\"\"\" UrlLink \"\"\" \"\n    Sleep, 50\n    SendInput {Raw}%clipurl%\n    sleep 100\n    SendRaw, style=\"background-color:#5a19ae;color:#ffffff;display:inline-block;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:bold;line-height:20px;text-align:center;text-decoration:none;width:150px;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;\"  \n    sleep 100\n    SendRaw, > %Texty% <\/a> \n    Return\n  }<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
That took a while to sort out, raw coding in VS Code didn’t work when I transferred to Email, but I found this handy page to make Buttons<\/a><\/strong>. It works like a charm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also used the #include<\/strong> to link my URL script to my main key page. That’s handy as I can Comment it out and use it when I want. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve now got it set up as a Full Signature in CopyTexy & also a HtoKey for pasting it into emails. The HotKey paste is quite slow, CopyPasty is a lot faster. You do have to remember to jump back out of HTML tab in Thunderbird before you can send, so I’m wondering if I can add that to the AHK script to make it more robust. This tripped me up when I was testing the email as I had the buttons adjacent to reach other, but on the mobile it looked really untidy, so I rearranged them  down the LH side so they look great on a mobile, nice and simple. I put spaces between so easy to click on individual buttons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also have the phone number that you press button on mobile and it rings the number, cool<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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AHK AutoCorrect<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
AutoCorrect<\/a><\/strong> is a cool tool that I’m starting to play with. It corrects mis-spellings, so you select text and hit (currently Shift+1) and it shows you the mis-spelt word and then you can put in the record. Only thing is it doesn’t seem to automatically correct after doing it. So I need to delve into it a bit more. (It seems double tap on spacebar works, but that’s not logical<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Some useful Calls with “A_” variables <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
There was a YouTube Video that showed a cyclin f a proramme such as Explorer with a hotkey, so that <\/p>\n\n\n\n
; This is a script that will always go to The last explorer window you had open.\n; If explorer is already active, it will go to the NEXT last Explorer window you had open.\n; CTRL Numpad2 is pressed with a single button stoke from my logitech G15 keyboard -- Macro key 17. \n; from vid https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OqyQABySV8k\n+1:: \n  IfWinNotExist, ahk_class CabinetWClass\n    Run, explorer.exe\n  GroupAdd, taranexplorers, ahk_class CabinetWClass\n  if WinActive(\"ahk_exe explorer.exe\")\n    GroupActivate, taranexplorers, r\n  else\n    WinActivate ahk_class CabinetWClass ;you have to use WinActivatebottom if you didn't create a window group.\nReturn<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
based on this video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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