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Submitted by jimspoon on 2018/04/17 21:24

I use autohotkey, usually for the purpose of entering the date in the format "2018.04.17.2020", via an autohotkey hotstring. For some reason when I am using IQ on my desktop, and I type in my autohotkey hotstring into a IQ grid cell, it does not get expanded. However, if I type in my hotstring into any other program on my desktop, it does get expanded. Curiously enough, when I am running IQ on my laptop, the hotstring does get expanded when I type it into an IQ grid cell.

Anybody else use autohotkey with IQ, and have a similar problem?

It's not a big deal, but it is a minor annoyance.

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Hi Jim,

Try with WYSIWYG editor On and Off to see if it works for one of the two editors.

I suspect it should work when WYSIWYG is On

Pierre_Admin

IQ Designer

I use AHK too and it works perfectly. Maybe an elevation/permission problem? (running IQ/AHK as admin or not)

I do get problems with AHK not expanding strings once in a while, but it's not only with IQ. For that reason I created a shortcut in AHK itself to restart the script. Restarting the script always fixes it.

You could try that:

; ctrl+shift+alt+r reloads the script

^+!r::Reload

Armando helped me remember a similar issue I had with AHK and another program.

When I ran the other program in "Run as Administrator" mode, ahk scripts had not effect in the program.

Maybe you are running IQ as Administrator on your desktop?

(Hey, nice to see you around, ethanrox!)

You too, Armando :) I hope I will have more time in the near future for some contribution again as I will be upgrading from my favorite 0.9.77 :D Should be fun.

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as I will be upgrading from my favorite 0.9.77 :D Should be fun.

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v77 ??? That is 2 years old

Make a backup first and if there is any issue, contact me to clean up the database. The database upgrade process was not designed for such quantum jump...

Pierre_Admin

IQ Designer

Yep, I've been feeling like an enterprise in the past two years regarding major updates - putting them off for as long as I can :)

Thanks for offering to mitigate the pain in the upgrade, Pierre :) I think I have corrupted other things as well in my db, so your help will be much appreciated!

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Thanks for offering to mitigate the pain in the upgrade, Pierre :) I think I have corrupted other things as well in my db, so your help will be much appreciated!

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My pleasure, but hurry up, I'm leaving on holidays in less than 2 weeks !

v108 will be released today with lots of usability improvements.

Pierre_Admin

IQ Designer

Great :) Then I'd better get to it over the weekend as from "the sound of it" your holidays wouldn't be short :).

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Great :) Then I'd better get to it over the weekend as from "the sound of it" your holidays wouldn't be short :).

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Life is short, so holidays must indeed be long, to compensate...

Pierre_Admin

IQ Designer

[quote=Pierre_Admin]

[quote=ethanrox]

Great :) Then I'd better get to it over the weekend as from "the sound of it" your holidays wouldn't be short :).

[/quote]

Life is short, so holidays must indeed be long, to compensate...

Pierre_Admin

IQ Designer

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Indeed :D lol

Thanks Armando and Ethanrox! Indeed the problem was that on my desktop I was running IQ in Administrator mode. Once I ran IQ in non-admin mode, the AHK hotstring expanded perfectly.

(I run a program launcher named SlickRun which allows me to start up programs by typing in the first few characters of any chosen abbreiviation ... somehow I had set up my "iqmain" abbreviation to start IQ in Administrator mode.)

Glad it's working! Yes, applications interactions (and things like global shortcuts) can be affected by those modes.