as I was playing to expand this into other menu items [e.g. i built a couple custom "open with" menus that capture the file path so I can send it to different text editors].
I was testing a couple code snippets with EV in the foreground and starting having errors where the selected file info was not being captured.
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I have everything set to show tooltip in thumbnails view, and when mouseing over a file icon in detail view.
*when* an EV window is active and there is a tooltip visible the hidden text I was accessing in AHK disappears completely.
it took me almost a couple months to pinpoint what was happening, how, why and when. but now I duplicate this.
IF a tooltip is showing I won't get the hidden text, move the mouse so the tooltip go away, I will get the hidden text.
here's a screenshot, not the highlighted tooltip that's from the AHK code below...
and then here I move the mouse so EV's tooltip hides itself and then the text is captured showing my menu...
I should add am a noob at ahk and\or coding in genral. This is all new to me in the past year... EV is wonderfully advanced, I imagine there likely another way to get the details of an selected item without using AHK, maybe through the SDK?? If there is that still over my head so I've been playing with AHK for now (and loveing it)
here's a snippiet of the AHK v1 code I've been playing with..
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evgetselected:
DetectHiddenText, on ; the file path of selected item is hidden
WinGetText, selected, ahk_exe everything64.exe
if errorlevel ; if there is no EV window open stop here.
{
tooltip, An Everything window doesn't seem to be open.
sleep 2000
tooltip
return
}
;; EV has hidden text for a selected file, the full path is in the first line of text
RegExMatch(selected, "m)^(.*)$", selected) ;; match first line of captured string, if multiple items are selected ev still only reports the most recently clicked
if !RegExMatch(selected, ".*\\([^\\]+)\\?$", "$1") ; match a file path in captured hidden text, if nothing is selected it tells you and stops here.
{
tooltip Everything is running thou nothing is selected.
sleep 1500
tooltip
return
}
sleep 50
SplitPath, selected, filename, dir, ext, filestem, drive ; splits the selected file path in to usable parts
; debug message box, shows what selected in its usable parts
; msgbox, selected: %selected%`n`n`nfilename: %filename%`ndir: %dir%`nfilestem: %filestem%`next: %ext%`n`nthismenuitem: %A_thismenuitem%`nthishotkey: %A_thishotkey%`nclip: %clipboard%
;; // the important part of this code about captureing the path of the selected item ENDS HERE
clipboard := ""
sleep 30
if (A_ThisMenuItem = "Full Path - Copy")
{
clipboard := selected
return
}
if (A_ThisMenuItem = "Dir Path - Copy")
{
clipboard := dir
return
}
if (A_ThisMenuItem = "Name - Copy")
{
Clipboard := filename
return
}
if (A_thismenuitem = "Open Dir Path")
{
run, %dir%
return
}
if (A_ThisHotkey = "$pause")
{
clipboard := selected
return
}
if (A_ThisHotkey = "$F9")
{
; clipboard := selected
; copyclipboardCLM()
; Activefile := Selected
Selected := Activefile
; restoreclipboard()
goto alttxtuseclip
; return
}
return
this might be much todo about nothing. LOL. Now that I figured out what causing this strange error I can work around it. Not the end of the code! haha.
but I thought id share. Maybe it can be fixed at some point.
in anyway thank you void, EV is wonderful!
cheers
xavier