Interprocess Communication

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Is there a way to send a window message from and Autocontrol script to an external window?

I want to execute dynamically created Autohotkey scripts from Autocontrol scripts. Currently I execute a "named script" with the commands as a parameter but this has the overhead of starting a new Autohotkey process for each request. 

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The scripting API doesn't allow to send window messages, but it's possible to achieve some sort of inter-process communication via the clipboard or via a file.

For example, you can use ACtl.setClipboard() to put content in the clipboard and then detect the clipboard change from your AHK script.

You could also use ACtl.saveFile() to write to a file or a named pipe and then form your AHK script you can detect when there's new data in the file or named pipe.

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Can you provide a basic example of using a named pipe from the AutoControl side? Can this pipe be used in both directions to send and receive messages?

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You can send data through a name pipe like this:

await ACtl.saveFile("\\\\.\\pipe\\myPipeName", data, {append:true})

Obviously, the pipe must already exist. You have to create it first in your AHK script with the "CreateNamedPipe" WinAPI function.

Unfortunately, it's not possible to read data from a pipe because the ACtl.getFile() function wasn't implemented to handle pipes.

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Thanks