OK. It's suddenly started working, but am getting weird stuff on my screen with alt+left/right arrow (see screenshot). Anyone any clues?

Hi Jesus,

I've disabled the app (you mean the Studio app right?) and tried disabling the scripts, but no joy. Would you mind having a quick look at this screenshot for me and tell me what's wrong? Thanks so much!

Hi Olly,

I meant disabling the scripts.

Anyway, I checked your scripts and they are quite fine, but you may need to add this line, just after each Send line:

Sleep 100

For example, after the first Send line:

Send {Ctrl down}{PGDN}{ctrl up}

You need to add this Sleep line below:

Sleep 100

Same thing with the other Send lines (one Sleep line after each Send line).

Try with just one script and check if it works. If so, add the Sleep line to the 2 remaining scripts and check them as well.

PS.: This Sleep line sets the number of milliseconds to wait. It maybe neccessary for you, or even increase it to 200 ms. Your scripts will be a bit slower, but you might even notice any delay at all.

Please try and let me know,

Hi Olly,

I meant disabling the scripts.

Anyway, I checked your scripts and they are quite fine, but you may need to add this line, just after each Send line:

Sleep 100

For example, after the first Send line:

Send {Ctrl down}{PGDN}{ctrl up}

You need to add this Sleep line below:

Sleep 100

Same thing with the other Send lines (one Sleep line after each Send line).

Try with just one script and check if it works. If so, add the Sleep line to the 2 remaining scripts and check them as well.

PS.: This Sleep line sets the number of milliseconds to wait. It maybe neccessary for you, or even increase it to 200 ms. Your scripts will be a bit slower, but you might even notice any delay at all.

Please try and let me know,

Hi Nora, thanks for that, it's working much more cleanly now, but I still can't get that merge segments script to work; do you have any idea on that? Pressing ctrl+m just does this:

By the way, I notice I get all those little alt key labels whenever I press the alt key (in Studio). Is that normal behaviour?

Thanks,

Olly

Unknown said:

By the way, I notice I get all those little alt key labels whenever I press the alt key (in Studio). Is that normal behaviour?

Olly Pekelharing 

Yes.  You can access all the ribbons icons with keyboard shortcuts... so for example I use Alt+F+T to get to the File -> Options all the time, or Alt+F+U+P to open the project templates.

Olly Pekelharing

Unknown said:

but I still can't get that merge segments script to work; do you have any idea on that? Pressing ctrl+m just does this:

It looks as though your script is not finshing as you have activated the keyboard mechanism for selecting segments and then not finished whatever your script did.  I use this one for merging segments which just automates the keyboard steps:

;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Merge adjacent segments
;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#IfWinActive SDL Trados Studio
^m::
Send !{Space}
Send !{Down}
Send !{Space}
Send ^!s
Return
#IfWinActive

Is this the one you are using?  Try walking through the commands manually to make sure they are working for you.  I think the likely scenario is that you are trying to merge across a paragraph break and your project is not set up to allow this.  So it gets stuck at the last action you carried out which is selecting the segments.

Unknown said:

Right, funny I never noticed it before. Can that behaviour be affecting my autohotkey shortcuts? Can it be turned off?

If you're computer is really fast I can imagine this causing you problems unless you build some lags into the scripts to give it time to catch up with you.  In practice you wouldn't notice the lag, but your computer would.

No, you can't turn them off.