[FYI]: Using SendMessage with AutoIt

[SanskritFritz]

Somehow AHK is as messy as TC

that is why I like it!!!

[SanskritFritz]

Read this, it helps a little to see the past and the future of AHK and AI3 synergy:
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=20168#20168

[icfu]

Not very promising...

Thx for info

Icfu

[SanskritFritz]

Actually i think, given the present circumstances, the way AHK plans improvements, like it supports functions and local variables (finally), it is promising.
I already started to convert my scripts to use functions.

[icfu]

I meant the bundling of efforts, not AHK features.

Icfu

[SanskritFritz]

So, a long awaited feature is here:
Added function DllCall(), which calls a function inside a DLL.

[Balderstrom]

@ SanskritFritz
Interesting stuff Do you by chance have any of your scripts online anywhere to look at?

[icfu]

Most of our AutoHotkey scripts are in the Wiki:
http://www.ghisler.ch/wiki/index.php/AutoHotkey

Icfu

[StickyNomad]

2icfu
Referring to your first post: I tried out your tipp and it works fine for the commands I tested yet, but I couldn't figure out whats up with

1075 is WM_USER+51

and why it's needed.

Ashes on my head if I did overlook something totally stupid, but maybe you can light a tiny candle to illuminate the darnesss I'm in

[SanskritFritz]

2StickyNomad
It is not needed, it is only an explanation. It is common for windows applications to define user defined messages, and Microsoft recommends that the values should be above the WM_USER constant. Ghisler simply defined his message as WM_USER+51, much like Douglas Adams his 42

[StickyNomad]

2SanskritFritz
thanks for you explanation, oh Deep Thought

strangely, this example works fine:

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$hwnd = WinGetHandle("Total Commander")
DllCall("user32.dll", "int", "SendMessage", "hwnd", $hwnd , "int" , 1075 , "int", 2903 )

but when I remove ' "int" , 1075, ', the script doesn't do anything, so I'm still a little confused...

[SanskritFritz]

1075 is the message identifier, the 2903 is the parameter from the Windows point of view. From TC point of view, 1075 is the message used to send commands to TC, whereas the parameter is the cm_VisTwoDriveButtons command you can find in the TOTALCMD.INC file. By changing the parameter you can send different commands to TC, but when you change the message constant, TC will do nothing if you are lucky, or something strange depending on the message it tries to interpret. You can even freeze an application by sending some messages to them.

[StickyNomad]

Thank you very much, SanskritFritz! I'm a complete idiot in windows programming but you enlightened me a bit.

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BTW and extremely Offtopic:
Did you ever hear Audio recordings of Douglas Adams live? I once heard a CD where he read excerpts from different books and it was perhaps even more enjoying than reading it!
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[SanskritFritz]

I'm a complete idiot in windows programming

You are an artist

Did you ever hear Audio recordings of Douglas Adams

No I havent had the chance. But i enjoyed his books very much

[StickyNomad]

You are an artist

Thanks. I'm a webdevelopper and -designer, to be exactly so I'm quite capable of programming and scripting, but not with Win-Apps and all this MFC and whatever stuff...