Running Javascript through AutoHotkey
Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2019 2:01 pm
Hello, have begun with JavaScript yesterday. I have been scripting in AHK to potentiate a numpad. Got around 450 shortcuts, 70 slower (>200 ms), and the rest bellow 200 ms for execution. But I found a quantitative bottleneck: it seems you can record ~44 actions and assign shortcuts to ~36 scripts, before overriding defaults.
Solution 1: Getting actions to run JavaScripts -- No, net loss
Solution 2: The reverse -- Same
Solution 3: Run actions with AHK -- No, actions that do not have a shortcut assigned are not accessible
Solution 4: Run JavaScripts with AHK -- here is what I am trying to do.
Simplest way is to run the file with a hotkey:
But that seems to generate a slight, but noticeable delay, specially unwanted for fast, single action scripts. Would still be useful for less prioritary hotkeys. But what about invoking functions within a permanently open JavaScript through artifitial keystroke events, is it possible? Would that perform faster, since the script is already open? I can only find examples concatennated with HTML, and Adobe`s PDF reference does not display addEventListener, as I have seen used elsewhere:
From: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/530 ... nput-field.
Solution 1: Getting actions to run JavaScripts -- No, net loss
Solution 2: The reverse -- Same
Solution 3: Run actions with AHK -- No, actions that do not have a shortcut assigned are not accessible
Solution 4: Run JavaScripts with AHK -- here is what I am trying to do.
Simplest way is to run the file with a hotkey:
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Run, SomeJavaScript.jsx, C:\Users\Me\Documents\Adobe Scripts\
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document.body.addEventListener("keydown", function(event) {
if (event.keyCode == 13) {
alert("Hello! You pressed the enter key!");
}
});