Might be useful for N.A.N.Y. this year I thought for those who will use AHK like me. Find below an example of live processing of the contents of an editbox. You can use it to filter a listview for example.
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; Live Search Example
; Performance enchancements
#NoEnv
SetBatchLines, -1
SetKeyDelay, 0
Gui, Add, Edit, vMyEdit gLiveSearch, %LastMyEdit%
Gui, Show
LiveSearch:
Gui, Submit, NoHide ; or without submitting use get ControlGetText, MyEdit, Edit1, %MainWnd%
ifEqual, LastMyEdit,MyEdit ; don't process no changes
return
Gosub,LiveSearchProcess
return
LiveSearchProcess:
Tooltip % MyEdit
LastMyEdit := MyEdit
return
