Plan for program help

[tazzzan33]

Looking for the communities thoughts on how to go about my plan.

I am looking to create a tool to read from a SQL database down the road that pulls in shared hotstrings. This will allow me to maintain what is added to the teams hotstrings. I need help with the how to make the strings they select dynamic for each person. My current thoughts were to use the gui to turn on and off simple hotstrings such as below but am not sure if that is possible or if the gui should create a different AHK file with the strings for a user.

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::example::
Send, Print this test sentence
Return

Trying to think ahead on a plan. Any tips or wisdom is greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

[jeeswg]

I'd been intending to do a dynamic hotstrings script for a while. Here's a way to do it, using the ExecScript function from the documentation:
Run / RunWait
https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/Run.htm#ExecScript

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#Persistent
OnExit("ExitFunc")
vScript = ;continuation section
(
:*:a5-::abcde
:*:b5-::bcdef
:*:c5-::cdefg
)
ExecScript(vScript, 0)
DetectHiddenWindows, On
SetTitleMatchMode, 2
WinWait, \* ahk_class AutoHotkey
WinGet, hWndHg, ID, \* ahk_class AutoHotkey
return

;==================================================

;[ExecScript function]
;Run / RunWait
;https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/Run.htm#ExecScript

ExecScript(Script, Wait:=true)
{
    shell := ComObjCreate("WScript.Shell")
    exec := shell.Exec("AutoHotkey.exe /ErrorStdOut *")
    exec.StdIn.Write(script)
    exec.StdIn.Close()
    if Wait
        return exec.StdOut.ReadAll()
}

;==================================================

ExitFunc()
{
	global hWndHg
	WinClose, % "ahk_id " hWndHg
}

;==================================================