autohotkey not working in 2019?

Question

Hi, sorry for this probably really stupid question, but after having installed autohotkey and the ahk manager (for 2019) according to the instructions in the Studio help file (installed autohotkey for 32 bit and that other windows app thingy), and having manually copied some of the scripts available (primarily interested in the merge segments script), I'm not getting any joy. The one to go straight to next or previous segment (alt+ right/left arrow) worked just after I created it, but now no longer. I'm sure I must have read over something important, but I can't find it... I'm on Studio 2019 and the scripts look like this:

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[edited by: Trados AI at 4:04 AM (GMT 0) on 5 Mar 2024]

Jesús Prieto · Accepted Answer

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,

Nora Díaz · Answer

Hi Olly, 
 
You should be able to get rid of the ALT key labels (no idea what the actual name is) by adding a line like this right before the return line of your scripts: 
 
Send {Esc} 
 
So, for the first one, for example, it would look like this: 
 
#IfWinActive SDL Trados Studio 
!down:: 
Send, {ctrl down}{pgdn}{ctrl up} 
Sleep 200 
Send, {down} 
Sleep 200 
Send, {ctrl down}{pgup}{ctrl up} 
Sleep 200 
Send {Esc} 
Return 
 
Please bear in mind that those ALT shortcut labels are shown whenever you press the ALT key by itself, so it's possible that they're showing because there's a bit of a delay between the time you press ALT and the DOWN arrow key which make up your hotkey.

Jesús Prieto · Answer

Have you got Word Bird app installed as well. If so, ALT+RIGHT/LEFT will clash with the shortcuts to merge/split segments&hellip;

Paul · Answer

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.

Paul · Answer

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.

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autohotkey not working in 2019?