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• Always on top, AHK, as Snippet ?

  joeNOR > 2021-11-12 13:32

  My brain has stopped working after a long week.... 
  
  But is this AHK thingy possible to set up in QAP with a Snippet or something?
  
  

  Code:

  ; Always on Top
^SPACE:: Winset, Alwaysontop, , A ; ctrl + space
Return

  
  Regards,
  joeNOR

• RE: Always on top, AHK, as Snippet ?

  kunkel321 > 2021-11-12 14:38

  If you are able to get it to work, see if this one will work...    Same thing, but says [Pinned] on the title of the window when it's pinned. 
  
  

  Code:

  ;#################### PIN WINDOW TO TOP #########################
!^SPACE::
WinGetActiveTitle, Title
Title := StrReplace(Title, " [Pinned]")
ID := WinExist("A")
WinGet, ExStyle, ExStyle, ahk_id %ID%
If (ExStyle & 0x8)
        ;ExStyle = AlwaysOnTop
{
    Winset, Alwaysontop, Off, A
    WinSetTitle, , ,%Title%
}
Else
        ;ExStyle = Not AlwaysOnTop
{
    Winset, Alwaysontop, On, A
    WinSetTitle, , ,% Title . " [Pinned]"
}
return

;#############################################

• RE: Always on top, AHK, as Snippet ?

  joeNOR > 2021-11-12 15:10

  Thank You!!
  
  I'm just wondering if it is possible to get some simple AHK stuff to work in QAP (since I have QAP on all my machines), and avoid having to maintain AHK and scripts along side QAP.
  
  I guess Jean has to answer this one...
  
  -jN

• RE: Always on top, AHK, as Snippet ?

  Jean Lalonde > 2021-11-12 16:35

  No, you can't run AHK code from within QAP. You can only run an AHK script file from QAP with an Application favorite.

• RE: Always on top, AHK, as Snippet ?

  joeNOR > 2021-11-12 16:46

  Thanks for the clarification!
  
  I guessed that was the case, just had to ask to be sure.
  
  I've compiled my very small script with some "snippets" to an exe, gonna put in the QAP dir and sync across my machines with QAP.
  
  -jN

• RE: Always on top, AHK, as Snippet ?

  kunkel321 > 2021-11-12 17:59

  I was just tinkering with QAP and noticed that Jean supports "pin to top" natively!
  Add Favorite > QAP Feature > it's the bottom item of the "Featured" subgroup.
  :- }
  

  ---

  But back to the topic of the post...
  
  I did just setup the above code in QAP, simply running it as an app like Jean suggested.  It did work.  For what it's worth, I never actually compile my autohotkey scripts...  In case any readers don't already know this tip:  put a copy of the AutoHotkey.exe executable in the same folder as your .ahk file and rename it to be the same.  For example:
  pinToTop.ahk
  pinToTop.exe (this used to be AutoHotkey.exe)
  
  Then you launch the exe and it reads the same-name ahk.  That way you can just edit the ahk file as often as needed without re-compiling each time...
  
  It also occurred to me that both of our above code samples have hotkeys assigned.  Those will stop the script if you try to run it from QAP.  In the setup I just did, I got rid of the hotkey and also put "ExitApp" at the bottom, rather than "Return." 
  
  

  Code:

  #NoEnv
#SingleInstance force

;#################### PIN WINDOW TO TOP #########################
WinGetActiveTitle, Title
Title := StrReplace(Title, " [Pinned]")
ID := WinExist("A")
WinGet, ExStyle, ExStyle, ahk_id %ID%
If (ExStyle & 0x8)
        ;ExStyle = AlwaysOnTop
{
    Winset, Alwaysontop, Off, A
    WinSetTitle, , ,%Title%
}
Else
        ;ExStyle = Not AlwaysOnTop
{
    Winset, Alwaysontop, On, A
    WinSetTitle, , ,% Title . " [Pinned]"
}
exitApp
;#############################################

  
  It did work as expected.  Of course this is largely moot since QAP has this feature already built in....
  
  EDIT: I should probably point out that the excellent folks at the AutoHotkey forum helped write this bit of code. Without their help, I would have never figured out how to do it...

• RE: Always on top, AHK, as Snippet ?

  joeNOR > 2021-11-12 18:18

  Yeah, sorry, my bad!
  
  My initial post was unclear and written in a hurry.
  I shouldn't have used that one as an example.
  
  The question was basically if QAP natively can run small "snippets" of AHK script.
  Not the always on top function as such.
  (On a couple of machines I use AquaSnap Pro, it also can keep a window on top).
  
  But thanks for the info, there is a lot of features in QAP..... and I forgot about that one.
  
  -jN
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