Automation

Functions to convert Hex 2 RGB and vice-versa

: Category: AutoHotkey; 27 September 2011; Hits: 15713

These are for autohotkey and in AHK code. Taken from Autohotkey forums topic 1878:

From Hexadecimal to RGB
From RGB to Hexadecimal
Check for a valid hexadecimal value

: Category: AutoHotkey; 05 July 2011; Hits: 46018

Apologies for copying this from another source but with lots of OpenSource developers disappearing and reappearing, the content is what I don't want to lose.

: Category: AutoHotkey; 25 January 2010; Hits: 234648

Couldn't find this anywhere on the net and kinda needed it so am making a note of how to do it here.

The issue is that I wanted to make my autohotkey program change the image that the mouse hovers over (within it's own GUI). No third-party component or dll needed, just a slight modification to the mousemove tooltip in the autohotkey manual.

: Category: AutoHotkey; 09 November 2009; Hits: 12542

Thought I'd put this down as it took me ages to search the Internet for this solution. In the end, I found it hidden away in the Autohotkey help file and not under the gui events...

The issue here is if you want to do something when a user resizes your program.

If you search and search, you'll find that GuiClose responds to when you close the app, and GuiSize will run when you resize the app.

: Category: AutoHotkey; 10 November 2009; Hits: 13351

Well there's a lot of autohotkey sites saying that you can apply a transparency and then capture special mouse events to emulate the mouseover and mouseout effects of a button with an image as a background. I couldn't get any of these working and they looked more confusing then anything else.

My solution is to set up the default button and the image to respond to the ENTER key after you typed something (this is for a search feature) in addition to having a button if the user would rather click then press the ENTER key. Then create the mouseover and mouseout effects afterwards.

: Category: AutoHotkey; 27 January 2010; Hits: 24826

In this case, I want to display the current month with today highlighted. As I was trying to get my head round writing this in a program using the qHTM.dll (to include HTML in an autohotkey GUI), the calendar will be in a HTML-autohotkey mixed code. Obviously just omit the HTML rubbish if you want to create a calendar using just autohotkey syntax.

Actually, the following code is an excerpt from my program which checks an online server (for IT Events during this month) and if it can't download the calendar, it had to display an offline version in the GUI. To display the following code in this website though, I've had to omit a lot of the HTML part.

: Category: AutoHotkey; 27 April 2010; Hits: 16785

Just a quick note for the moment on how to use ternary operators in AutoHotkey. A ternary operator for those who are unfamiliar with this is an "If...Then...Else..." statement written in a small amount of code, usually on one line, and exists in most programming languages.

For Example, the statement:

If (ThisCondition = true)
    ThisVar:=1
Else
    ThisVar:=2

Converted to Ternary this would look like:

ThisVar:=(ThisCondition = true) ? 1 : 2

I'll add as there are a whole bunch of methods using the Ternary Operator in AutoHotkey (discussed on http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic29752.html) which I'll put in soon. I just needed something on my site now as I find myself looking for this bit of info every now and again.

Batch Process to rename multiple files using Windows DOS

: Category: MS-DOS; 09 August 2014; Hits: 40954

Applies to:

Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
Ms-DOS Command Prompt (6.1.7601)

What?
A quick article on how to rename multiple files using the command prompt and a bit of string manipulation. This example will rename files which contain the string " (Copy)" and replace it with nothing (so removes it). The challenge here is the space character and delimiting by a string.

The Gist

-- What I have
Image00001 (Copy).jpg
Image00002 (Copy).jpg

-- What I want
Image00001.jpg
Image00002.jpg

How?
Before I continue, the undo may work in MS Windows (Control key + Z) but don't count on it. I'm going to use a short batch process but to save time on the different ways of doing this, the example below uses a command prompt to a) create a batch file b) use it to rename the files c) delete the batch file.