Macro recording

[chris.d...@gmail.com]

Hello,

Sorry if this has been asked before, but is there any chance that SciTE will support macro recording in the future?

If not, what are the alternatives?

Thx

[John Yeung]

> Sorry if this has been asked before, but is there any chance that SciTE will support macro recording in the future?
>
> If not, what are the alternatives?

I doubt that this feature will be developed, especially by the creator
of the software. I suppose there might be a chance that a
community-developed contribution would be accepted.

The main alternatives are (1) Lua and (2) system macro software, such
as AutoHotkey on Windows. I am sure Linux and Mac have something
similar.

John Y.

[chris.d...@gmail.com]

Thx for your reply.

I was looking into a lua script, but from what I can tell it is not possible to capture keystrokes with Plain lua...

Am I correct?

Op zondag 14 februari 2021 om 13:11:06 UTC+1 schreef John Yeung:

[Mitchell]

Hi,

On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 04:17:28 -0800 (PST)
"chris.d...@gmail.com" <chris.d...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thx for your reply.
>
> I was looking into a lua script, but from what I can tell it is not
> possible to capture keystrokes with Plain lua...
>
> Am I correct?

There's an OnKey event you can try. I contributed it many years ago for more key customization. I don't remember if it can be used to capture insertion keystrokes like plain letters though.

Cheers,
Mitchell

[Neil Hodgson]

chris.de.boeck:

Sorry if this has been asked before, but is there any chance that SciTE will support macro recording in the future?

If not, what are the alternatives?

Filerx supported macro recording but I don’t think it is maintained.

http://llt.chez-alice.fr

   Neil

[John Yeung]

> Op zondag 14 februari 2021 om 13:11:06 UTC+1 schreef John Yeung:
>>

>> The main alternatives are (1) Lua and (2) system macro software, such
>> as AutoHotkey on Windows. I am sure Linux and Mac have something
>> similar.

On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 7:17 AM chris.d...@gmail.com
<chris.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was looking into a lua script, but from what I can tell it is not possible to capture keystrokes with Plain lua...
>
> Am I correct?

I don't know, but I actually meant that you could write a Lua script
*instead of* recording keystrokes. Writing a script is probably not as
easy to do as recording a macro, but is also probably much more
powerful and flexible.

My other suggestion, of AutoHotkey, actually gives you close to the
best of both approaches.

John Y.

[michel....@gmail.com]

Hello

I tried monitoring key strokes to create readonly parts in a document, with an old version 3.

OnKey can be used but it may be difficult with modifiers

I stuck on the mouse and insertion point. Specially when using the middle button to click and paste over selection.

(I had to memorize the document and compare to check the readonly parts)

Best regards

[chris.d...@gmail.com]

Hi,

The OnKey event seems to capture everything I want, but now the question is, how do I send keystrokes to the editor?

Thx

Op maandag 15 februari 2021 om 09:41:11 UTC+1 schreef michel....@gmail.com:

[buttim]

Many years ago I wrote a macro manager for Scite's Windows version. It seems to still be working. It's a single C# file, first line tells you how to compile it.

It uses Scite's built-in interface for external macro managers, so you will need to launch it (no window, just an icon in the icon tray). Then you will be able to use the Tools menu (List macros and the next 3 entries).

You can give it a look, if you or anyone else is interested I'll be happy to document it.

[chris.d...@gmail.com]

HI,

Thx for sharing! Documentation would be nice ;)

I compiled your program, but when I tried to execute it, nothing happened. 

In the windows event log I see the following:

System.DllNotFoundException

   at App.SetManagedHook(WH, IntPtr, UInt32)

   at App..ctor()

   at App.Main()

Op maandag 15 februari 2021 om 14:44:26 UTC+1 schreef buttim:

[BugFix@AutoIt]

Hi,

im using macros in this kind (it's SciTE4AutoIt, working with event class looks a little different). Here I'm using "Ctrl+Numpad1..6" to activate the macros:

Macro = EventClass:new(Common)

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

TimeOS = function() local datetable = os.date("*t", os.time())

return string.format('%02d:%02d:%02d', datetable.hour, datetable.min, datetable.sec)

end

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

GetProp = function(_prop)

return props[_prop]

end

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

LoremIpsum = function()

return

[[Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut

labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores

et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem

ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore

et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea

rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.]]

end

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

local scitemacro = function(_value)

local tMacro = {

[97]  = GetProp('FilePath'), -- NUMPAD-1  full path of the current file

[98]  = GetProp('FileDir'),  -- NUMPAD-2  directory of the current file without a trailing slash

[99]  = GetProp('FileName'), -- NUMPAD-3  base name of the current file

[100] = GetProp('FileExt'),  -- NUMPAD-4  extension of the current file

[101] = TimeOS(),            -- NUMPAD-5  current time

[102] = LoremIpsum()         -- NUMPAD-6  predefined text block

}

return tMacro[_value]

end

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

function Macro:OnKey(_keycode, _shift, _ctrl, _alt)

-- print('_keycode: '..tostring(_keycode)..', _shift: '..tostring(_shift)..', _ctrl: '..tostring(_ctrl)..', _alt: '..tostring(_alt))  -- DebugToConsole

-- our macro keys: "ctrl+NUMPAD-1 to NUMPAD-6"

local textMacro = scitemacro(_keycode)

if textMacro ~= nil and _ctrl and not _shift and not _alt then

editor:InsertText(editor.CurrentPos, textMacro)

return true -- avoids default processing

end

end

To send other editor commands, you can use scite.SendEditor(SCI_...).

[buttim]

Oh, I forgot half of it. You also need a small DLL compiled from the attached code.

To compile it use the following command

!cl /nologo /LDd /EHsc /W4  HookToManaged.c  HookToManaged.def user32.lib /link /section:rws,rws

Sorry about that

[buttim]

ignore the exclamation mark at the beginning of the line though (oh my!)