space) you’ll end up with something like ‘’. Now when you type td (followed by an EndChar, eg. I built these simple examples to use a minimum of code and maximum of speed. It’s hard to find a canonical, correct, and up-to-date answer to the question: how do I make AutoHotkey insert the current date/time? Most solutions seem too complicated, possibly too outdated, or both. The examples and a brief AutoHotkey reference section are available on this website for free.

If you find this article useful, check out my book Practical AutoHotkey: How to get faster at work with text expansion and automation. WinGet, ListOfControlHandles, ControlListHwnd, ahk_id %WindowUniqueID% Requires v1.0.43.06+.Microsoft Windows only. VarSetCapacity(WindowControlText, WindowControlTextSize) EdtWindowTextSlowHidden MyGetWindowText(ByRef EdtWindowTextFastVisible, ByRef EdtWindowTextSlowVisible, ByRef EdtWindowTextFastHidden,ByRef EdtWindowTextSlowHidden) This routine will do the job of getting and returning from the active window the following text sections: As I noted above, ^c was also giving issues just like ^a was giving issues. But I am able to send a ctrl, shift and an ins. It is funny to note that real keyboard keys, such as a b c are not possible. This is the code I used: ControlGetText, volume, ThunderRT6TextBox3 Please help me find a more elegant solution than this one. Then I save the selection to my clipboard. However, if I do SendEvent ^ to the active window and then do a click at the bottom of the window. Even then SendEvent ^a doesn't do anything. It works, and one word gets select like that. I tried the script to manually double click on that window. I tried putting pauses but it would never select. Which is equivalent to control + a, which should select everything.

The only difference between the two cases, is that those two small boxes are editable, you can enter text whereas this window is static. But when I try the same strategy it is not working, eg:

In that window, there is more textual information related to the book, such as publisher, name author, edition etc. It clicks it, and a new window pops open. Then my script makes my mouse pointer move to a button. I can get that information easily as follows: ControlGetText, volume, ThunderRT6TextBox3 In two smaller boxes below, there is page number and volume information of the book that is open.

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