Submitted by jimspoon on 2014/06/25 17:32
Do any of you use autohotkey to enter hotstrings, or some other autotext program like PhraseExpress?
 
Anyway - for some reason when I type in an Autohotkey hotstring into an IQ item to enter the date and time in the form I want - nothing happens.  But the desired date and time do appear when I type in the hotstring into another program.   Just in case it matters, I am typing "/dddd" to get Autohotkey to input the date and time.
 
I had this problem before with IQ and I fixed it somehow - I thought the problem was that I had IQ in "auto-edit" mode, and once I turned it off, I could once again use Autohotkey to put stuff into IQ items.  But now I have auto-edit off, so I don't know what the problem is.
 
will try it on another computer momentarily, but just wanted to inquire with the rest of you.

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I do have problems with AHK + IQ too. 
 
I believe it's related to the way IQ enters edit mode when one starts writing. It seems like it might be repeating the first letter (or something like that) to compensate for something (I'm saying this because some AHK strings with a doubled letter at the beginning will get triggered instead of the other version without the doubled letter).
 
It does work though, BUT only after I've already started typing something else before. So, if an AHK string is going to be the first thing to be  typed in a cell, I need to first  type F2 or insert a space before typing anything.
 
 
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jimspoon

2014/06/26 07:40

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Hi Armando, thanks for your reply.  I tried entering a space in the IQ item before typing in my AHK hotstring, still it was not expanded.
 
Right now I have the IQ .exe file, together with datafiles, in a Dropbox folder.  I ran the same .exe file on another computer, opened up the same .sndb file on another laptop, typed in the AHK hotstring, and the hotstring was expanded, no problems.
 
So ... it seems to be something specific with this particular computer.  I tried to "reset" things in a number of different ways - by shutting down IQ and restarting; by reloading the AHK file; by shutting down and restarting AHK.  None of these things helped.  AHK hotstrings still not being expanded in IQ on this particular computer, in this particular session.  I suspect it might work after rebooting this computer, haven't done that yet, will report back.
 
update: rebooting the computer did not fix the problem.
 
 

jimspoon

2014/06/26 14:33

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Wow, I had no idea there were all these different versions!  And sort of a challenge to figure out what version I'm using.  But I can say that it is version number 1.1.11.01, Unicode 64-bit version.  It seems this is Autohotkey_L.  If the version number is 1.0.*, it's the "classic" Autohotkey; if it's 1.1.*, it's autohotkey_L. 

Armando

2014/06/26 21:30

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I'm on L too. I'm not using the Unicode version though, for compatibility reasons.
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Windows 8.1
Sony Vaio S Series 13 (SVS131E21L)
Ram:8gb, CPU: Intel i5-3230M, 2.6ghz