New Snippet - Is it possible use a Preset or Template for Script section?

[TFWol]

When creating a new snippet I'd like to have the Script section prefilled with

LLInit()
[[llpart1]]

It's easier for me to delete when not needed.

I tried looking through the .ahk files, but it was sort of hard to follow. It seems if I messed with the wrong spots, the script logic might do weird things in certain 'Edit modes'.

[TFWol]

I was also thinking about something like a dropdown.

[lintalist]

An interesting idea. The templates wouldn't be too difficult to implement, so I'll look into that (in a few weeks). My idea would be to look for files in a ScriptTemplates folder so you can simply copy/edit files in the folder and they should appear in the dropdown.

The editor is probably the worst section of code of lintalist (it grew out of hand and ended up with some 🍝 code which is hard to "follow" and bugfix).

For now I would do it like this, in plugins\MyPlugins.ahk I would add AutoHotkey hotstrings like so:

#IfWinActive, Lintalist snippet editor ahk_class AutoHotkeyGUI
::/s1::
Send LLInit()`n[[llpart1]]
Return

; more hotstrings here

#IfWinActive

So now you type /s1 and it would insert the hotstring.

plugins\MyPlugins.ahk will not be overwritten during an update.

[TFWol]

My idea would be to look for files in a ScriptTemplates folder so you can simply copy/edit files in the folder and they should appear in the dropdown.

That'd be a great implementation. It would keep things simple and easy to tweak.

The editor is probably the worst section of code of lintalist (it grew out of hand and ended up with some 🍝 code which is hard to "follow" and bugfix).

No worries, I think I understand what you mean; I played with ideas in the past that are still spaghetti code, but fixing it is low priority as long as it works (especially since I'm a bit rusty with the coding language).

Thanks for the hotstring suggestion. Using it as a plug-in is better than what I was doing.

[TFWol]

Hm, I'm having a hard time getting the MyPlugins.ahk to work normally.
Even the msgbox test I put in isn't triggering.

It only works if I run the .ahk script directly.

/*
Purpose       : Main #Include script for user Plugins
Version       : 1.0

See "readme-howto.txt" for more information.
*/

;----------------------------------------------------------------
; add or #include your Plugins below

;#Include %A_ScriptDir%\plugins\YourPluginsFile.ahk

#IfWinActive, Lintalist snippet editor ahk_class AutoHotkeyGUI

^+k::
msgbox, test
Return

::/s1::
Send LLInit()`n[[llpart1]]
Return

; more hotstrings here

#IfWinActive

[TFWol]

Figured it out. I usually run the lintalist.exe and had to compile the changes.
Side note: I'll need to look into the compilation process to exclude certain directories or something 😐

[lintalist]

just fyi the lintalist.exe that comes with the release downloads are just renamed AutoHotkey.exe files so Lintalist as downloaded isn't compiled, you just have to restart it for any changes made in .ahk files to be loaded.

I haven't actually never compiled lintalist.ahk but I suspect it would need some work for it to work correctly (there are no FileInstall so certain things would simply fail to load if you just copy the compiled lintalist to another folder or computer.

[TFWol]

lmao. I originally was using the named exe as a way to more easily view used resources in a task manager since I have a ton of other scripts running for various things; it's a pain to see which AutoHotkey process is running which script at times.

I may have made a change to the Lintalist.ahk file which led me to compile without thinking, which led to the overwriting of the ahk binary.
Through sheer coincidence, things were pretty stable. 😄