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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: an "importer" for abbreviations into AHK

« on: March 01, 2006, 04:52 PM »

What can I say about the GUI, I love it!  We all love them so, don't we?  <grin>  Thank you, this is near perfect now. 

One thing....the two later scripts put the trigger before the actual short form.  So for instance, with the latest one with the great place for putting in your trigger key and the create file button, if I put in a semicolon for the trigger and hit create file, then the hotstrings come out with the trigger before the short form.  For instance:

It creates this:

[Select]

:o*:;aaor::
Send,ascending aorta
Tooltip,ascending aorta
Sleep,1000
Tooltip,
return

Rather than what I desire, which is this:

[Select]

:o*:aaor;::
Send,ascending aorta
Tooltip,ascending aorta
Sleep,1000
Tooltip,
return

Oh, I can change it so easily with a find and replace that it's no biggee, but I would like to change it in the script itself.  I'm not sure how to do this, can you help me?

Lastly, I adore the tool tip!  I've even seen in the past how to do certain things with tooltips, such as center them, etc.  But, is it feasible to have the tool tip show before you hit the trigger key (the semicolon)?   

Thank you!  No rush at all - whenever.  Cheers.

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Finished Programs / Re: An "importer" for abbreviations into AHK

« on: March 01, 2006, 11:56 AM »

Believe me, DC will definitely be getting publicity.  As a matter of fact, they would have been anyway.  I'm so taken away with this place, it is a wonderful site.  I'm only waiting until I'm a bit more familiar here, so that when I say what I have to say, I do it well.  Your programming this for me only shoots my opinion up about 90% higher!  

About the duplicate short forms, I meant if someone has:

mar25=March 25
mar25=0.25% Marcaine

Then, when you click on the Hotstrings script, it tells you there is a duplicate, the program won't run, and will exit.  As I said, that's really no big deal.  They can take them out manually.

If, for example, with tpptth=the patient presented to the hospital, one types tpptth, I would want it still to replace the hotstring, but show a tooltip of the phrase.  Your second example of possible completions would be incredible, beautiful.  That is what some popular expanders do now.  However, I am very happy at the moment.  Very!  Please feel more than free to stop here.  I'm wowed enough for one day.

Again, so many thanks.  

PS:  Just saw your last post.  I will definitely check it out. 

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Finished Programs / Re: An "importer" for abbreviations into AHK

« on: March 01, 2006, 11:20 AM »

That is incredible!  I'm awe-struck.  This is just tremendous for me!  I suspected it might be easy for some of you and fast, but wow, you whipped it up immediately!

Not being able to have the equal sign in a hotstring should not be any problem at all.  None.  Nor the space issue.   

I tried it on a very large text file (35 pages worth of phrases when I opened it with MS Word), and it took them beautifully.  And fast.  If a person has duplicate short forms, the resulting Hotstrings file won't run until they are taken out or changed.  I think, right now, that is fine.  Let the person deal with those.  Maybe I'll think on that.

I don't need an executable, this is fine.  This is okay to share with other MTs? 

Wow, can't get over it.  Is it terribly much a whole 'nuther ballgame (difficulty-wise) to make them have tooltips, such that when you hit your short form keys (tpptth) you'd get a tooltip showing you the matching phrase?  I'm just asking here, I know it wasn't in my original request.  I may make a new post with such a request!   

Well, I have more playing to do.  I feel really appreciative.  You probably can have no idea, LOL.  Thank you, jgpaiva!  Great job!

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Finished Programs / DONE: abbreviations importer

« on: March 01, 2006, 10:20 AM »

How feasible is this scenario:

I am a medical transcriptionist.  Many of us have thousands of word and phrase abbreviations in the expanders we use. 

Example: 
hthym = hypothyroidism
tpptth = the patient presented to the hospital

The request is - if the above format is put into a plain text file, and/or the same format but no spaces before or after the equal sign, can someone make a script that would put them all into an AHK hotstrings file?  I would like it so that somehow, before importing the list, the user could specify whether they want the trigger key to be the spacebar, the semicolon key, or whatever other key they choose. 

Thanks for letting me ask.  Thanks for this forum.

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets het to know each other a bit ... who are you, what do you do, where do you come from?

« on: February 24, 2006, 06:05 PM »

Thank you, Carol.   

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets het to know each other a bit ... who are you, what do you do, where do you come from?

« on: February 23, 2006, 09:40 PM »

Hi!  I'm Harrie (female) and very happy about finding this site.  Think it might keep me off the streets for awhile!  <grin>

I'm from New Orleans, but ended up in Hot Springs, Arkansas after Katrina and now, I've moved to Atlanta and am hoping to settle down here for good.  I work at home as a transcriptionist.  I'm lucky enough to like my work.  I have a forum site that keeps me busy, too.  I'm married to a great guy. 

I love software, I love learning, I love programmers! 

I always read a book before falling asleep at night.  I mostly enjoy reading true stories, but sometimes fiction.   

Looking forward to getting familiar with the members here and the site itself.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Similar apps for collecting ideas thread

« on: February 23, 2006, 09:25 PM »

Hello, all!  New here, and couldn't resist giving my 2 cents on this one.

I have to put in a vote for QTBar.  http://www.qtbar.com/  Have used it for several years and never really found one I liked better.  Does everything I feel it should!