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As you can tell these are my messed up functions that convert dates into seconds and vice-versa. They're a little disorganised but they're the ones I copy and paste to my scripts then modify. In it's straightforward form FormatTime( TimeString, Format )
Just a quick note as I use this function in various scripts. This adds the 1000th separator comma: FormatAddCommas(val) { Result:=val StringLen, OutputVar, Result NumLoop := (OutputVar // 3) DNum = 3 Loop, % (NumLoop+1) StringLen, OutputVar, Result Loop, %OutputVar% { FirstChar:=Substr(Result, 1, 1) IfEqual, FirstChar...
What's this all about? Well I want the basic hover effect: when my mouse cursor hovers over a link, I want that link to turn blue and display an underline. When I move the cursor away from the link, I want the link returned to black without an underline. How?
Apologies for copying and pasting this but this is information that is worth NOT losing. Tutorial on how to use COM objects in AutoHotkey. Source: Jethrow @ Autohotkey Forums
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.
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...
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...
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...
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 t...
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