Traditionally, if you’re running AutoHotkey and want to use the Program Files directory in a path, you’d use the built-in variable %A_ProgramFiles% which would parse out to wherever the directory was located. So, to open Putty (assuming it was installed) you’d have this code: Run %A_ProgramFiles%\PuTTY\putty.exe WinWaitActive PuTTY Configuration We run into trouble when we […]
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I’ve gotten a lot of search results for “autohot key use mouse button as shortcut” lately so I figured I’d write a short post for whoever keeps looking for it. To see the full list of key codes, go to this link: List of Keys, Mouse Buttons, and Joystick Controls. On there you can clearly […]
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My most recent project has been using certain free tools to create RSS feeds. I’m an avid user of Google Reader (since 2007 I’ve read something like 133k items) and I (for example) don’t want to open a page just to view an image when it, or have to manually go to a website that […]
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I’ve had another idea… press a certain key combination, and you get a link to whatever text you had selected. This mirrors the ability to easily share text on sites such as pastebin. To use it, you’ll need AutoHotKey and a Dropbox account. Then grab my updated AHK Dropbox library. Usage Download the file to […]
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Sorry for a new version so soon, but I realized somewhat belatedly that the easy way to get a file’s location is to simply copy it, something that AutoHotKey does rather easily. So, I’ve put a new version of the library up. This one can copy multiple files/folders to the dropbox, whereas my previous version […]
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