Solve : help with script running in dos?

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Answer» hi there i am running a .ahk file with Autohotkeys .. when i go to run the script .. this is for Vista x64 .. it changes my \ to " .. so my folder would read (C:\Folder\Folder) but in dos it is showing up as (C:"folder"folder) any help?Not sure what an autohotkey script has to do with dos or a batch file.when you execute the script .. it requires dos to runYou should post the script. Quote from: phree on FEBRUARY 19, 2012, 11:17:59 AM when you execute the script .. it requires dos to run Do you mean your AHK script launches a btach file?AutoHotKey has a complex system of character replacement in parameter strings, in particular involving quotes and backslashes. From the AutoHotKey documentation: http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/_EscapeChar.htm Quote The default escape character for AutoIt v2 (.aut) scripts is backslash (\). [...] When a .aut script is auto-converted into a .ahk script, the backslash escape character (\) is globally replaced with the accent character (`). I suspect that those characters shown as double quotes by the OP are really accent/backticks. Without seeing the original script, (and maybe not even then) it will be very difficult (for me at least!) to offer much advice. Thus I recommend: 1. A thorough and careful STUDY of the AutoHotkey documentation. http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/ 2. Having done that, (OTHERWISE stand by to be flamed!) ask in one of the AutoHotkey forums, such as this one... http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/ In fact, that forum's "search" facility showed me quite a few promising looking TOPICS. Quote from: Salmon Trout on February 19, 2012, 01:00:19 PM http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/ In fact, that forum's "search" facility showed me quite a few promising looking topics. What a novel idea. A support forum for a piece of software.

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hi there i am running a .ahk file with Autohotkeys .. when i go to run the script .. this is for Vista x64 .. it changes my \ to " .. so my folder would read

(C:\Folder\Folder) but in dos it is showing up as (C:"folder"folder) any help?Not sure what an autohotkey script has to do with dos or a batch file.when you execute the script .. it requires dos to runYou should post the script.
Quote from: phree on FEBRUARY 19, 2012, 11:17:59 AM

when you execute the script .. it requires dos to run

Do you mean your AHK script launches a btach file?AutoHotKey has a complex system of character replacement in parameter strings, in particular involving quotes and backslashes.

From the AutoHotKey documentation:

http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/_EscapeChar.htm

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The default escape character for AutoIt v2 (.aut) scripts is backslash (\). [...] When a .aut script is auto-converted into a .ahk script, the backslash escape character (\) is globally replaced with the accent character (`).

I suspect that those characters shown as double quotes by the OP are really accent/backticks.

Without seeing the original script, (and maybe not even then) it will be very difficult (for me at least!) to offer much advice.

Thus I recommend:

1. A thorough and careful STUDY of the AutoHotkey documentation.

http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/

2. Having done that, (OTHERWISE stand by to be flamed!) ask in one of the AutoHotkey forums, such as this one...

http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/

In fact, that forum's "search" facility showed me quite a few promising looking TOPICS.
Quote from: Salmon Trout on February 19, 2012, 01:00:19 PM

http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/

In fact, that forum's "search" facility showed me quite a few promising looking topics.

What a novel idea. A support forum for a piece of software.

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