Hi,

This is great! But how do I do if I want the search to happen on for example the first tab and not a new one?

I am trying to make a script for how to search on Linguee.com on the first tab basically.

This is browser-dependant.

You'll need to activate that browser window (with WinActivate function).

Then switch to tab #1. Probably Send ^1 works (CTRL+1).

Activate the browser's address bar. Probably Send ^l works (CTRL+L).

Send the clipboard content with Send %clipboard%

Last, press enter key with Send {Enter}

☛ Probably you'll need a Sleep command between each line mentioned above.

Hmmm I am completely new to this Hot Key thing. What is Winactivate? And where do I put these things in?

Like this?

;Linguee.com lookup
!h::
Sleep 200
Send, ^c
ClipWait
Sleep 200
WinActivateBottom, %chrome%
Sleep 200
Send ^1
Sleep 200
Send ^l
Sleep 200
Send %clipboard%
Sleep 200
Run www.linguee.com/search
Sleep 1200
Send ^v
Send, {Enter}
Return

Still opens up in a new tab, I'm afraid

You need to test your script, little by little. Try to mimic exactly what you you'd do manually.

The AutoHotkey - ADVANCED webinar, also part of the Spring Trados Virtual Conference 2021, gives you the idea of how to approach this kind of automation.

Sorry, I have no time to write and test the script for you.

Hi,

Okay, sure. Just one question: How do I open a chrome window without using the Run function (so not a new window but also not a certain website). Basically what I am after is a way to open a new tab and put something in the address bar.

Do you mean how to open a new tab in Chrome? The answer is CTRL+L.

No, I mean how to open Chrome. I tried Run Chrome.exe but that opens an entirely new window in Chrome. I just want to open the Chrome I already have open.

I don't think you need to use:

Run Chrome.exe

I'd recommend you to assume that Chrome is already open. Just being simplistic at the beginning, then tuning up the AutoHotkey code once it works.

Try using Nora's line of code:

Run www.google.com/search

This will open a new tab in your default browser (already open or not) with the address and searching parameter provided. But it won't open the tab in the number #1 position.

Don't forget that Nora's script addresses the steps that consume more time if done manually: copying the selected text, switching to the browser application, opening Google web page, pasting the clipboard content and pressing Enter key. I understand that closing the new tab because it's duplicated somewhere else is one more step, sure, and it can be done with the procedure I posted last week, but I wouldn't say it's the most important. Little by little you catch the monkey.

Hi Ida,

Try this:

;Linguee.com lookup
!h::
Sleep 200
Send, ^c
ClipWait
Sleep 200
WinActivate ahk_exe chrome.exe
Sleep 200
Send ^1
Sleep 200
Send ^l
Sleep 200
Send https://www.linguee.com/search
Sleep 400
Send {Enter}
Sleep 1500
Send ^v
Sleep 400
Send {Enter}
Return

Hope that works for you!

Hi Ida,

Try this:

;Linguee.com lookup
!h::
Sleep 200
Send, ^c
ClipWait
Sleep 200
WinActivate ahk_exe chrome.exe
Sleep 200
Send ^1
Sleep 200
Send ^l
Sleep 200
Send https://www.linguee.com/search
Sleep 400
Send {Enter}
Sleep 1500
Send ^v
Sleep 400
Send {Enter}
Return

Hope that works for you!

Hi!

No, unfortunately not :/ It doesn't open Chrome. Very often when I try different script, it also causes the Studio segment to lock, which I don't understand, since as far as I know Ctrl+L is the shortcut for locking a segment, not Alt+e, Alt+f or Alt+h (all different shortcuts I've been trying to use).

I found that the hotkeys I create work sometimes and sometimes not. So at some point they have worked with maybe Sleep 400, but then all of a sudden, I need Sleep 4000 for it to work, and then of course it is much slower. At this point, I would not use these (except for the google lookup one, which always works).

I for example created a script for Eur-lex (EU's legislative database) which also only functions sometimes:

;Eur-lex.com lookup
!f::
Sleep 200
Send, ^c
ClipWait
Sleep 50
Run http://eur-lex.europa.eu
Sleep 200
Send ^l
Sleep 50
Send e
Sleep 50
Send {Space}
Sleep 50
Send ^v
Sleep 200
Send {Enter}
Return

Here it is annoying, because I don't in fact need to run the website - since I use "e" for it to create a search in the address bar (via the manage search engine function in chrome) - but since the Winactivate doesn't seem to work for me, this is the only way I can do it.

I got it to work! This is the script I've used:

;Linguee.com lookup
!h::
Sleep 200
Send, ^c
ClipWait
Sleep 50
WinActivate ahk_exe chrome.exe
Sleep 200
Send ^1
Sleep 200
Send ^v
Send, {Enter}
Return

I wrote everything the same way. Hopefully it will come out. I'm going to try

;Mabbly.com lookup
!h::
Sleep 200
Send, ^c
ClipWait
Sleep 200
WinActivate ahk_exe chrome.exe
Sleep 200
Send ^1
Sleep 200
Send ^l
Sleep 200
Send https://www.mabbly.com/
Sleep 400
Send {Enter}
Sleep 1500
Send ^v
Sleep 400
Send {Enter}
Return