Way to get known current path if it's very long (by tooltip)

[Balderstrom]

@Boofo, don't listen to StatusQuo... AHK is addictive and will suck up huge amounts of time playing with it!

[Boofo]

2Balderstrom,

It all looks greek to me.

[StatusQuo]

2Balderstrom
Yep.

[Boofo]

I have been using AutoIt v3 and I see AutoHotkey uses a form of their compiler. Which one is actually the better one?

[Balderstrom]

*chuckle* AutoHotKey origins came from AutoIT v2
AutoHotKey IMHO is a better program because of its' easier syntax and better HotKey and Alias functionality.

They have a lot in common these days, and depending on who you ask you will get a different answer. AHK remains open source, and their forums tend to be friendlier.

[StatusQuo]

I'd say about the same: I like AHK's syntax better, but that's just a matter of taste.
Their forum (plus quite a few users here) and the open source status made me choose AHK.

For the script above: I added a fix in the wiki
(getting the window title failed under some special conditions, making TC's program name etc. disappear from the title, until TC was minimized or restarted).

[Boofo]

2StatusQuo,

Thanks for the update.

How do you run the short name option?

[StatusQuo]

How do you run the short name option?

Currently by editing the script, in line 5 change the value from ":= 0" to ":= 1":

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boShortenTcName    := 0	; 1 = replace "Total Commander" with "TC"

I set the default to 0, because some people/scripts may rely on the original title.

[Boofo]

2StatusQuo,

Thank you, sir. I was thinking you meant a command line option when running the script.

[StatusQuo]

2Boofo
I assumed this to be a one-time setting, so I didn't add a command line switch for it. Is that OK?

BTW, to use command line switches for uncompiled AHK scripts, you would have to change *.ahk file association from

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autohotkey.exe "%1"

to

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autohotkey.exe "%1" %*

[Boofo]

2StatusQuo,

That's fine. I wasn't complaining. I am new to AHK so I wasn't quite sure how it works yet. I'm still learning.

[Balderstrom]

I told you it would suck you in Boofo!!
My persistent AHK script is 993 lines long hehe (And I'm still learning interesting tricks).

It still hasn't replaced CMD.exe for me though, as it doesn't interface cleanly with command-line utilities without what seems like a hackish workaround - for the purposes of pipes.

[Boofo]

I'm still working on getting it to type my name to the screen. I'm on a roll!

[StatusQuo]

To get back to the topic:
The current tab still doesn't show a path tooltip, while inactive ones do, when hovered with the mouse.

How about adding the existing tooltip also for the current tab in a future version?

[Boofo]

I would like to see that, also.

Support++