Drag & drop Autohotkey scripts

[lycanthrope7]

Hi all,

I've recently converted from FreeCommander to XYplorer. I'm loving it so far except for one major problem. I'm a prolific Autohotkey user and I have a number of scripts that are activated by dropping files on them. My problem is that XYplorer won't allow me to drop files onto a non-compiled script. The scripts in question work fine in Windows Explorer or FreeCommander, but XYplorer doesn't seem to recognise that an AHK file can receive dropped files.

Has anyone else experienced this problem and, more importantly, overcome it?

Regards,
Tim

System info:
XYplorer 12.8
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

[admin]

Hi and welcome!

I will add "ahk" to the drop target extensions. It will work in the next beta (get it here in the forum later today...)

Don

[Enternal]

Hi and welcome!

I will add "ahk" to the drop target extensions. It will work in the next beta (get it here in the forum later today...)

Don

Just out of curiosity, is DropTargetCustomExtensions in the ini file part of that ability?

[admin]

Yep, if you need it before the next beta you can use DropTargetCustomExtensions now.

[Stefan]

Too late


Hi Tim and welcome.

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v7.90.0300 - 2009-05-14 14:45
 
    + Tweak: Added the possibility to add more file types to drop stuff 
      on. The format of the values is "dot- [extension-dot-]extension-
      dot". So it could look like this, for example:
        [Settings]
        DropTargetCustomExtensions=.dro.drp.drq.ahk.

[admin]

FYI, in recent versions you don't need the surrounding dots anymore:

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DropTargetCustomExtensions=dro.drp.drq.ahk

[lycanthrope7]

Hi and welcome!

I will add "ahk" to the drop target extensions. It will work in the next beta (get it here in the forum later today...)

Don

Awesome, thanks. I gotta say, this is a first. I've never had a forum post responded to so fast, and I've never had a solution to my problem available the same day. I'm extremely impressed.

On a side note, I created a custom Open with... command and assigned a keyboard shortcut to it. So now I don't have to drag and drop the files, I just select them and hit the shortcut and XYplorer automatically passes the selected files to the script. It works perfectly and will save me a bit of time.

Thanks again for the awesome product and support.

Regards,
Tim

[Nighted]

On a side note, I created a custom Open with... command and assigned a keyboard shortcut to it. So now I don't have to drag and drop the files, I just select them and hit the shortcut and XYplorer automatically passes the selected files to the script. It works perfectly and will save me a bit of time.

You can also do this using the catalog or custom toolbar icons.

[admin]

On a side note, I created a custom Open with... command and assigned a keyboard shortcut to it. So now I don't have to drag and drop the files, I just select them and hit the shortcut and XYplorer automatically passes the selected files to the script. It works perfectly and will save me a bit of time.

You can also do this using the catalog or custom toolbar icons.

But not with a keyboard shortcut.

[j_c_hallgren]

Awesome, thanks. I gotta say, this is a first. I've never had a forum post responded to so fast,

Hi and welcome from me too! Yes, Don is awesome! He replied in less than 15 min which isn't unusual but also depends on timing (day/nite/etc).

and I've never had a solution to my problem available the same day.

Not only same day but within the hour! The best I've ever seen from bug report to beta is about 15 min.

I'm extremely impressed.
Thanks again for the awesome product and support.

That's what makes XY SO great a product! The fantastic level of support which we as users try to help with as well.