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Gabby

I do this sort of thing a lot. I tend to use what I call bar-strings, eg "AĀ|aā|...". I use StringSplit to convert this to an array, and it's easy from there. In other cases, where the commands are used less frequently, I make a picklist dialog, so I can see what I'm doing (see attachment). The menu...

Gabby

OK. Consider a block including several Send statements, which we decide to change to a call to a function Fsend to send in a different way, or with delays.

So 'send {F3}' needs to be changed to 'Fsend("{F3}")'. Takes some time to change them, and doesn't read anywhere else as well.

Gabby

Well, for a start you don't need to remember that the ( can't be preceded by a space.

Seriously though, a few times I've need to replace 'commands' with my own functions (which *use* the command), and found this quite tedious.

Gabby

Not happy. I tried this with my app and it was unreliable. I slowed it down with sleeps until it was useless and it was still unreliable with this app. And that was with the app active the whole time. The key sequence was as follows (repeated): - ^C and check clipboard, maybe exit - F3 to copy the c...

Gabby

Ahh, I wait with bated breath ...

Gabby

Is it possible to have a function (actually a procedure, because the return value is discarded), called without the parentheses, like an inbuilt command or a sub in VBA? So if we have a function Do_things(X, Y) is it possible to call it with "Do_things X, Y". The reason I ask this is that functions ...

Gabby

Ok, I think we're there. Firstly ahk_parent doesn't make any difference (I'd already tried that). The following code works for me. I was slowed down by the suggested ControlFocus, which should have been ControlGetFocus. WinGet, TgtExe, ProcessName, A ; get process name of active ControlGetFocus Fctr...

Gabby

No difference. Not surprising really, since I'm using the full name of the process. A

Gabby

No, fraid not - nothing moves at all. I did some more investigations using the following: WinGet, TgtExe, ProcessName, A ControlSend, , {Down}{Down}, ahk_exe %TgtExe% This works for Notepad, but not for Word (winword.exe) or the keying tool (or my own editor, FWIW). All of them work if I just go: se...

Gabby

Not really - it requires signing up. Also, it's not that much of an issue. I've noticed that some apps appear to be quite recalcitrant when it comes to AHK. A

Gabby

Urk. I didn't expect *that*.

Thanks, pikers.

Gabby

No joy there. I've tried
controlSend, , {Down}{Down}, ahk_exe KeyingTool.exe
and nothing happened, even when the window was active.

Andrew

Gabby

Is there any way to send key sequences so that they only go to the target (initially active) window, even if this becomes unfocused. See the attachment. I need to run sequences in this grid, but occasionally use 'sleep' to ensure the grid updates before the next keys. The trouble is that it all take...

Gabby

I'm trying to paste text into a string grid, as shown in the image. When I use ^V, nothing happens. ^C works OK, and Ctrl+V works OK manually. Instead, to past a value I have to use F2 *before* ^V with delays, which slows the process. particularly when I'm doing lots of them. Any idea how I can get ...

Gabby

Thanks for that. No, not Excel - it's an app without any form of API (Excel would be easy).

Gabby

Okayyy. So that will let me stop the loop when the window loses the focus. I suspected that the problem was using Copy on an inactive window. Trouble is, the window contains a grid and I've only found one way to get the cell data, which is by using Copy. GetControlText isn't returning the cell conte...

Gabby

I'm running a function that halts as soon as the target window loses focus. I have similar functions that don't use the clipboard which work OK, ie they continue when the window loses focus. Any suggestions? ;*** This function is used for replacing WAP [Blank] cells with nulls (by deleting them). ; ...

Gabby

I've been trying but can't get anything from the grid I've been checking out - the result is always blank (even though the cell has text in it). Could you provide a few more details, please?

Gabby

I have an app which includes a grid, and I'd like to get the string value of the current cell.

Any ideas?

Gabby

Thanks guys, particularly for the code. A

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