Menu-like popup Topic is solved

[Gabby]

I'm a complete newby with AHK (1 day experience), but OK with VBA and Delphi, so it all makes sense so far, and looks amazing. I can process keystrokes to launch and paste OK, so now I'm looking at something a bit more complex.

I want to activate a form or popup menu which will then take various actions (mostly pastes) depending on keystrokes from the user. It looks like a menu will do this, but I was looking for something a bit more controllable in terms of format, like a form with buttons. The reason for avoiding a popup menu is that there are likely to be 20-30 options.

So the idea is that I launch the form with eg Ctrl-Alt-P, then select an item either using a key or key combination or by mouse selection, which makes changes to the active form.

I would really appreciate some pointers on what might meet this need.

Gabby

[wolf_II]

Controllable in terms of format would suggest a GUI for your form. You can put buttons on that. Your script can create a GUI first and not show it straight away. Add a hotkey to show the GUI, Add subroutines to do the work (e.g. pasting text). Try this:

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Gui, -Caption
Gui, Margin, 0, 0
Loop, 24
    Gui, Add, Button, w80 gAction, Action #%A_Index%
Return

^!p:: Gui, Show

Action:
    Gui, Hide
    MsgBox, %A_GuiControl%
Return

I hope that gets you started.

[Capn Odin]

If you want more control you will need to make the GUI yourself.
You can make a new GUI with

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Gui, New [, Options, Title]

add controls with

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Gui, Add, ControlType [, Options, Text]

and show it with

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Gui, Show [, Options, Title]

[Gabby]

Thanks for the suggestions, particularly to the use of a GUI (elsewhere known as a form - who'da thunk it).
I've decided that a ListView probably meets my needs best, with a few other controls.

Gabby