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TaranVH
We need something better for creating the file
io.open("C:\\Users\\TaranVanHemert\\Documents\\keypressed.txt", "w")
For someone who don't know lua (or don't know programming at all) he has to change the code himself... I Will search for something better
Why not just create the file in the directory the script has been initialised from?
That seems to be a good idea but some directory need admins right to be written on windows :'( A way to choose where the user want to create the file sounds a lot better to me
The script is more than likely going to be ran from a directory that the user has access to, as that user has either downloaded it from the internet or created it themselves.
local home = os.getenv("HOMEDRIVE") .. os.getenv("HOMEPATH");
print (' ');
print ('Your home folder is: ' .. home);
[...]
local file = io.open(home .. "\\Documents\\keypressed.txt", "w");
I have done that... no pull request for the moment cause i don't know how to program the file path in ahk :')
I TOTES AGREE! Writing to a text file on disk is dumb, but I don't know how to write to RAM. Is that what this will do?
hmmm ram is not a good idea since in an OS a program can't access to the ram of another program :( BUUT there is a solution :') (I think i'm not a good user of AHK I have never used it before today) https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Scripts.htm#cmd with os.execute() you can execute batch command in lua script so ... also today I worked on your lua script and I find how to use modifiers keys how to catch pause and printscreen key how to fix the numlock/capslock/scrlock usage and also stated to make it compatible with multiple macro keyboards and others layouts than ANSI-US
You could wrap the whole thing in another script, then both processes will be accessible within the same environment.
what is the point ? Why having the same env could help ? passing keypress in an env variable is not really a good idea too if it's what you want to do
What's the point? So you don't have to write to disk. The host script sits in between lua-macros and autohotkey and does all the work without writing to disk.
Does AHK can read env variables ? I think it's better to use command line argument but it could be a good idea too
Can PostMessage be used instead of a file altogether?
As described on this page
The workflow: hidmacros.exe catches the keypress, runs sendmessage.ahk which in return sends the message to shortcuts_pad.ahk. shortcuts_pad.ahk then searches the settings.xml for the right shortcut and uses execute.ahk to execute the command.
Setup: connect your second (usb) keyboardrun hidmacros.exe Posted Image click „new“ enter a name for this shortcut (i just use the name of the key of the second keyboard)click „scan“ then press the desired key on your second keyboardactivate the last button at the bottom „run application“insert „sendmessage.ahk“ + the name of your shortcut key (just use the same name as above)
ok, my first pull request was really bad... But we can pass the key press via command line arguments to the script i've done that for a litlle keyboard and this work pretty well:
the ahk script:
Loop %0%
{
param := %A_Index%
If param = 1
{
Send, https://i.imgur.com/lzfy9Sq.png{enter}
Return
}
If param = 2
{
Send, https://i.imgur.com/jAe0Lnb.gif{enter}
Return
}
If param = 6
{
Send, https://i.imgur.com/X3T6lMl.png{enter}
Return
}
If param = 7
{
Send, https://i.imgur.com/FuysN1K.jpg{enter}
Return
}
Else
{
MsgBox, %param% Not associated.
Return
}
}
and the (simple) lua script:
lmc_device_set_name('macrosPad', 'kb_device_ID');
lmc.minimizeToTray = true;
lmc_minimize();
key = {
[8] = "6",
[13] = "14",
[48] = "10",
[49] = "7",
[50] = "11",
[51] = "15",
[52] = "8",
[53] = "12",
[54] = "16",
[55] = "9",
[56] = "13",
[57] = "17"
};
lmc_set_handler('macrosPad', function(button, direction)
if (direction == 0) then
os.execute("start path_to_ahk_executable path_to_your_ahk_script" .. " " .. key[button]);
end
end)
why my first pull request was bad ? because without start in the os.execute function the script will run AHK and wait until it end (so all the keypresses made by AHK will be made in the command line opened by luamacro)
What about reading and writing to IOstream and add a 3rd script to call the existing scripts and forward those?
@Sasszem this is basically the gist of what I was trying to say. I don't know anything about lua or it's IOstreams but in Node.js I would use a stream to accomplish this,
I TOTES AGREE! Writing to a text file on disk is dumb, but I don't know how to write to RAM. Is that what this will do?
How about a ram disk? I use this tool https://sourceforge.net/projects/imdisk-toolkit/ But you can use any RamDisk utility and write the keypressed.txt to there!
