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I am new to Auto HotKeys and am unsure how to run the "Drag and Drop" program and "Bump-n-Run".  I have an 85 year old aunt that always has trouble double-clicking because of arthritis in her hands.  These programs sound absolutely great and just what she needs.

Thank you.

Maurita

There are discussions of AutoHotkey both in these forums and at its own web site.

The very short description is that you can write scripts -- plain old text files, but named with .ahk at the end instead of .txt -- and if you have downloaded the Autohotkey program it can run those scripts.  Alternatively, the person who wrote the script can compile it to an .exe file.  Then all you need to do is download that .exe file -- you don't need anything more from the AutoHotkey site to run it.

Whether you install AutoHotkey and put the .ahk file on the Desktop, or just download the .exe file and put it on the Desktop, the way to use them is:

    Drag and Drop -- drag the icon for some other program (it also works for some types of documents) and
        drop it on the Drag and Drop icon on the Desktop

    Bump-n-Run -- double-click on the Bump-n-Run icon on the Desktop (or drag it to and drop it on the
        Drag and Drop icon, if you have both).  You should see a thin line going down the top part of the
        left edge of the screen.  Drag the icon of the program you want to run or the document you want
        to open "through" that edge.

Dan D

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dB,

That is soooooo cool!  :Thmbsup:  I have it running now.

Dan

--
My request made The Best Of Blog but the image there doesn't look anything like me!

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The upgrade I would like to have is from this PC to one of those new-fangled dual core Intel Macs with multi-OS boot and virtualization software. :)

Dan

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Skrommel,

It works great!  It is exactly what I wanted.  Thank you!

Dan

p.s. And the icon has a fine sense of style -- drag the desktop Internet Explorer icon to it and it spits it right back out! :)

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dB,

here is a
- smaller GUI
- stays on top till f12 or ESC

Thanks!  I have it up on the upper left of my screen now, mostly off screen so that just a little strip (not quite two icons high) shows that I can drag things to and drop on. :)



kimmchii,

or you can change it to "single click to open an item".

Yes, and in the past I have sometimes used that, but I like this better.

Dan

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Woo hoo!  Thanks!

Not sure if this is what you need, but your feedback is welcome.

Very close!   :)  I was thinking of an icon instead of an application, but if I could resize the window down small and have it not go away after each use, that would be great!

Dan


p.s.  I Google'd for...  Windows AHK scripting  ...and it asked ...

    Did you mean: Windows AWK scripting  :)

...but it still got the first hit right...

    AutoHotkey Tutorial: Macro and Hotkey Creation
    http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Tutorial.htm

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(Windows)  My attempts to double-click on an icon don't always work -- my hand may move too much, or the clicks are too far apart, or I actually only clicked once after all.  But I never have problems dragging an icon and dropping it.  It would be nice to have an "Open" or "Run" icon on my desktop so that I can open documents or run applications just by dragging their icons and dropping them on the "Open" or "Run" icon.

On my laptop at work I am usually logged in nonprivileged but do have an administrator privileged account on it.  Some applications like Google Desktop and most installations need the privileges to run.  So the same as the above but with "Run as..." would be useful, too.  :)

Currently I often mouse button three and make sure I haven't move off the Open and/or move down to the Run as..., but dragon drops  8) are quicker and easier.

Thanks,
Dan

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I have Perl from http://www.activestate.com/ on my (Windows) PC.  From a command line prompt with Perl you can do something like

D:\Dan\Perl>perl -a -n -e "if (@F) { print unless $h{$_}; $h{$_} = 1 } else { print }" < dc1.txt
line one
line two

line three



line four

D:\Dan\Perl>type dc1.txt
line one
line one
line two

line three



line two
line one
line four
line three

D:\Dan\Perl>

(use output redirection
... > result.txt
to capture the result).

Dan

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