Ixiko / Ahk Rare

AHK-Rare - collection of rare or very useful single functions

This is a collection of functions I found at Autohotkey-Forum or inside Autohotkey Scripts. Sometimes you will find one of it an official Autohotkey-Library. Approximately 90-95% of the functions can not be found in any of the 2600 libraries that I have also put together here at Github.

Some of the collected function seems to be multiple in this collection, because they sometimes use very different methods. This is a crucial difference. You dont wan’t find “THE ONLY ONE” good function here. Take what is the better!

AHK-Rare GUI ++ SEARCH COMFORTABLE ++

[November 24, 2019]: + 7 = 667

AHK-Rare GUI (V0.80):

• bumpy correction of the GUI display for display on 2k monitors

[September 21, 2019]:

AHK-Rare GUI (V0.79):

• Fixed a problem with screen resolution. Now the gui detects if the script it's running on 2k or 4k Monitor (only if it's the primary monitor). It is taken care that the Gui is created within the visible range of the monitor.
• The AHK-Rare logo has a width of 660 pixels. This looks good on a 4k monitor. For 2k monitors, the image is scaled to half the size.
• AHK-Rare.ahk was renamed AHK-Rare.txt because it caused too much confusion.
• added a statusbar to the gui, because the GUI looks strange under Win 10. The status bar then shows if the clipboard is empty, contains anything other than a function from AHK-Rare, or if there is an AHK-Rare function that can be inserted into an editor.
• What should work then, of course, is the copy function. And this works again now.

[September 14, 2019]: + 14 = 660

AHK-Rare GUI: Fixed many issue’s in the parsing algorithm. Small changes to gui layout. The EXAMPLE(s) and DESCRIPTION tabs will be highlighted if they have content. Basic search is working. The output in the DESCRIPTION tab is clearer now. Unfortunately, I still have not got any differently colored description keys.

[August 28, 2019]: + 13 = 646

AHK-Rare GUI: There are only a few new functions this time, as I have created a script (alpha release) for a more comfortable presentation of the function collection (AHK-Rare_TheGui.ahk). The gui is divided into 2 areas. In the upper area, all functions are displayed for selection. In the lower area you will find more information after selecting a function. With a right click on the displayed code or the detailed description, the function will be copied to the clipboard.

[July 01, 2019]: +19 = 633

[February 16, 2019]: +37 = 614

[December 15, 2018]: +22 = 577

optimized layout, began to assign a number for functions identification, Split topics to find functions faster, each function will get the following description* over time:

/*    	DESCRIPTION of function 
    	----------------------------------------------------------------------------
		Description  	:	
		Link           	:	
		Author         	:	
		Date           	:	
		AHK-Version 	:	
		License        	:	
		Parameter(s)	:
		Return value	:
		Remark(s)    	:	
		Dependencies	:	
		KeyWords    	:	
    	----------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/

*in preparation for a comfortable search and editing program.

• Ansi2Oem() - using Ansi2Unicode and Unicode2Ansi functions
• Oem2Ansi() - using Ansi2Unicode and Unicode2Ansi functions
• Ansi2UTF8() - using Ansi2Unicode and Unicode2Ansi functions
• UTF82Ansi() - using Ansi2Unicode and Unicode2Ansi functions
• FindChildWindow() - new version! - If there was no title or text for the childwindow, the returned value was empty, so this function can handle now a new search parameter -Class or ClassNN-
• StdoutToVar_CreateProcess() - Runs a command line program and returns its output
• DNSQuery() - retrieve IP adresses or host/domain names from DNS
• CreateDIB() - a wonderfull function by SKAN to draw tiled backgrounds (like chess pattern) to a gui, it can also draw gradients
• GuiControlLoadImage() - scale down a picture to fit the given width and height of a picture control
• Gdip_ResizeBitmap() - returns resized bitmap
• Gdip_CropBitmap() - returns cropped bitmap. Specify how many pixels you want to crop (omit) from each side of bitmap rectangle
• FontClone() - backup hFont in memory for further processing
• GuiDefaultFont() - returns the default Fontname & Fontsize
• DateDiff() - returns the difference between two timestamps in the specified units
• ObjectNameChange() - titlebar hook to detect when title changes, (Lexikos’ code)
• StrGetDimAvgCharWidth() - average width of a character in pixels
• BlockKeyboard() - block keyboard, and unblock it through usage of keyboard
• GetFileFormat() - retreaves the codepage format of a file
• RunUTF8() - if a .exe file really requires its command line to be encoded as UTF-8, the following might work (a lexikos function)
• Is64bitProcess() - check if a process is running in 64bit
• getSessionId() - this functions finds out ID of current session
• SetTrayIcon() - sets a hex coded icon to as try icon
• HashFile() - calculate hashes (MD2,MD5,SH1,SHA256, SHA384, SHA512) from file ;23

[September 30, 2018]: +140 = 555 functions

functions for controls (10)

• ControlGetClassNN() - different method is used here in compare to the already existing functions in this collection
• FocusedControl() - returns the HWND of the currently focused control, or 0 if there was a problem**
• GetClassName() - returns HWND‘s class name without its instance number, e.g. “Edit” or “SysListView32”
• ControlSelectTab() - SendMessage wrapper to select the current tab on a MS Tab Control.
• ClickOK() - function that search for any button in a window that might be an ‘Ok’ button to close a window dialog
• 4 different AddToolTip() functions - very easy to use function to add a tooltip to a control
• Control_GetFont() - retrieves the used font of a control

networking and Internet (9)

• HostToIp() - gets the IP address for the given host directly using the WinSock 2.0 dll, without using temp files or third party utilities
• LocalIps() - with small changes to HostToIP() this can be used to retrieve all LocalIP‘s
• IE_TabActivateByHandle() - activates a tab by hwnd in InternetExplorer
• IE_TabWinID() - find the HWND of an IE window with a given tab name
• GetAdaptersInfo() - GetAdaptersAddresses function & IP_ADAPTER_ADDRESSES structure
• Color_RGBtoHSV() - converts beetween color two color spaces: RGB -> HSV
• Color_HSVtoRGB() - converts beetween color two color spaces: HSV -> RGB
• ACCTabActivate() - activate a Tab in IE - function uses acc.ahk library
• TabActivate() - a different approach to activate a Tab in IE - function uses acc.ahk library

Strings search and handling (5)

• CleanLine() - Return a line with leading and trailing spaces removed, and tabs converted to spaces
• StrTrim() - Remove all leading and trailing whitespace including tabs, spaces, CR and LF
• GetWordsNumbered() - gives back an array of words from a string, you can specify the position of the words you want to keep
• PrintArr() - show values of an array in a listview gui for debugging
• StrDiff() - SIFT3 : Super Fast and Accurate string distance algorithm

more ListView functions (19)

• LV_SubitemHitTest() - get‘s clicked column in listview
• LV_EX_FindString() - find an item in any listview , function works with ANSI and UNICODE (tested)
• LV_RemoveSelBorder() - remove the listview‘s selection border
• LV_SetExplorerTheme() - set ‘Explorer’ theme for ListViews & TreeViews on Vista+
• LV_Update() - update one listview item
• LV_RedrawItem() - this one redraws on listview item
• LV_SetExStyle() - set / remove / alternate extended styles to the listview control
• LV_GetExStyle() - get / remove / alternate extended styles to the listview control
• LV_IsItemVisible() - determines if a listview item is visible
• LV_SetIconSpacing() - Sets the space between icons in the icon view
• LV_GetIconSpacing() - Get the space between icons in the icon view
• LV_GetItemPos() - obtains the position of an item
• LV_SetItemPos() - set the position of an item
• LV_MouseGetCellPos() - returns the number (row, col) of a cell in a listview at present mouseposition
• LV_GetColOrderLocal() - returns the order of listview columns for a local listview
• LV_GetColOrder() - returns the order of listview columns for a listview
• LV_SetColOrderLocal() - pass listview hWnd (not listview header hWnd)
• LV_GetCheckedItems() - Returns a list of checked items from a standard ListView Control
• LV_ClickRow() - simulates a left mousebutton click on a specific row in a listview

functions to deal with windows (22)

• WinActivateEx() - Activate a Window, with extra Error Checking and More Features
• AutoCloseBlockingWindows() - close all open popup (childwindows), without knowing their names, of a parent window
• SetParentByClass() - set parent window by using its window class
• MoveTogether() - move 2 windows together - using DllCall to DeferWindowPos
• SetWindowTheme() - set Windows UI Theme by window handle
• HideFocusBorder() - hides the focus border for the given GUI control or GUI and all of its children
• WinWaitCreated() - Wait for a window to be created, returns 0 on timeout and ahk_id otherwise
• closeContextMenu() - a smart way to close a context menu
• CheckWindowStatus() - check’s if a window is responding or not responding (hung or crashed) -
• GuiDisableMove() - to fix a gui/window to its coordinates
• WinInsertAfter() - insert a window after a specific window handle
• GetWindowOrder() - determines the window order for a given (parent-)hwnd
• EnumWindows() - Get a list with all the top-level windows on the screen or controls in the window
• CenterWindow() - center a window or set position optional by using Top, Left, Right, Bottom or a combination of it
• MouseGetText() - get the text in the specified coordinates, function uses Microsoft UIA
• unmovable() - makes Gui unmovable
• movable() - makes Gui movable
• A_DefaultGui() - a nice function to have a possibility to get the number of the default gui
• GetInfoUnderCursor() - retreavies ACC-Child under cursor
• GetAccPath() - get the Acc path from (child) handle
• GetEnumIndex() - for Acc child object
• enumChildCallback() - i think this retreave’s the child process ID for a known gui hwnd and the main process ID

File System (6)

• GetFileAttributes() - get attributes of a file or folder
• SetFileTime() - to set the time
• SetFileAttributes() - set attributes of a file or folder
• FileSetSecurity() - set security for the file / folder
• FileSetOwner() - set the owner to file / directory
• FileGetOwner() - get the owner to file / director

Graphic/GDI Functions (6)

• GDI_GrayscaleBitmap() - Converts GDI bitmap to 256 color GreyScale
• Convert_BlackWhite() - Convert exist imagefile to black&white , it uses machine code
• getHBMinfo()
• SaveHBITMAPToFile() - saves the hBitmap to a file
• DrawRotatePictureOnGraphics() - rotate a pBitmap
• CopyBitmapOnGraphic() - copy a pBitmap of a specific width and height to the Gdip graphics container (pGraphics)

ClipBoard Functions (9)

• ClipboardGetDropEffect() - Clipboard function. Retrieves if files in clipboard comes from an explorer cut or copy operation.
• ClipboardSetFiles() - Explorer function for Drag&Drop and Pasting. Enables the explorer paste context menu option.
• CopyFilesToClipboard() - copy files to clipboard
• FileToClipboard() - copying the path to clipboard
• FileToClipboard() - a second way to copying the path to clipboard
• ImageToClipboard() - Copies image data from file to the clipboard. (first of three approaches)
• Gdip_ImageToClipboard() - Copies image data from file to the clipboard. (second approach)
• Gdip_ImageToClipboard() - Copies image data from file to the clipboard. (third approach)
• AppendToClipboard() - Appends files to CF_HDROP structure in clipboard

memory functions (19)

• ReadProcessMemory() - reads data from a memory area in a given process.
• WriteProcessMemory() - writes data to a memory area in a specified process. the entire area to be written must be accessible or the operation will fail
• CopyMemory() - Copy a block of memory from one place to another
• MoveMemory() - moves a block memory from one place to another
• FillMemory() - fills a block of memory with the specified value
• ZeroMemory() - fills a memory block with zeros
• CompareMemory() - compare two memory blocks
• VirtualAlloc() - changes the state of a region of memory within the virtual address space of a specified process. the memory is assigned to zero.AtEOF
• VirtualFree() - release a region of pages within the virtual address space of the specified process
• ReduceMem() - reduces usage of memory from calling script
• GlobalLock() - memory management function
• LocalFree() - free a locked memory object
• CreateStreamOnHGlobal() - creates a stream object that uses an HGLOBAL memory handle to store the stream contents. This object is the OLE-provided implementation of the IStream interface.
• CoTaskMemFree() - releases a memory block from a previously assigned task through a call to the CoTaskMemAlloc () or CoTaskMemAlloc () function.
• CoTaskMemRealloc() - change the size of a previously assigned block of working memory
• VarAdjustCapacity() - adjusts the capacity of a variable to its content
• GetUIntByAddress() - get UInt direct from memory. I found this functions only within one script
• SetUIntByAddress() - write UInt direct to memory
• RtlUlongByteSwap64() - routine reverses the ordering of the four bytes in a 32-bit unsigned integer value (2 functions for AHK v1 und AHK v2)

Systeminformations (7)

• GetPhysicallyInstalledSystemMemory() - recovers the amount of RAM in physically installed KB from the SMBIOS (System Management BIOS) firmware tables, WIN_V SP1+
• GlobalMemoryStatus() - retrieves information about the current use of physical and virtual memory of the system
• GetSystemFileCacheSize() - retrieves the current size limits for the working set of the system cache
• DriveSpace() - retrieves the DriveSpace
• RtlGetVersion() - retrieves version of installed windows system
• UserAccountsEnum() - list all users with information
• GetCurrentUserInfo() - obtains information from the current user

Font handling (3)

• FontEnum() - enumerates all uniquely-named fonts in the system that match the font characteristics specified by the LOGFONT structure
• GetFontTextDimension() - calculate the height and width of the text in the specified font
• GetFontProperties() - to get the current font‘s width and height

converting functions (8)

• RadianToDegree() - convert radian (rad) to degree
• DegreeToRadian() - convert degree to radian (rad)
• RGBToARGB() - convert RGB to ARGB
• ARGBToRGB() - convert ARGB to RGB.
• JEE_HexToBinData() - hexadecimal to binary
• JEE_BinDataToHex() - binary to hexadecimal
• JEE_BinDataToHex2() - binary to hexadecimal2
• DllListExports() - List of Function exports of a DLL

functions for different purposes (17)

• pauseSuspendScript() - function to suspend/pause another script
• GetCommState() - this function retrieves the configuration settings of a given serial port
• Hotkeys() - a handy function to show all used hotkeys in script
• ColoredTooltip() - show a tooltip for a given time with a custom color in rgb format (fore and background is supported). This function shows how to obtain the hWnd of the tooltip.
• PostMessageUnderMouse() - Post a message to the window underneath the mouse cursor, can be used to do things involving the mouse scroll wheel
• GetBinaryType() - determines the bit architecture of an executable program
• SetRestrictedDacl() - run this in your script to hide it from Task Manager
• type(v) - Object version: Returns the type of a value: “Integer”, “String”, “Float” or “Object” by Lexikos
• type(ByRef v) - COM version: Returns the type of a value: “Integer”, “String”, “Float” or “Object” by Lexikos
• Time() - calculate with time, add minutes, hours, days - add or subtract time
• WM_SETCURSOR() - Prevent “sizing arrow” cursor when hovering over window border
• getActiveProcessName() - this function finds the process to the ‘ForegroundWindow’
• GetHandleInformation() - obtain certain properties of a HANDLE
• SetHandleInformation() - establishes the properties of a HANDLE
• InvokeVerb() - executes the context menu item of the given path

[July 15, 2018]: +79 = 415 functions

I’ve found a lot function this time. I checked the found functions that these can not actually be found in any library, so that these can really be called "Rare". I added some more descriptions, examples, links and moved some functions to the right category.

***** changing the signs to default code folding signs. I changed ;{ to { ; and ;} to }. I hope it will work in most cases and most code editors.

####+added new section: RegEx - Strings - useful strings for RegExMatch or Replace

• 2 RegEx strings to find AHK-functions - not tested yet

  Strings/Arrays/Objects/Text/Variables

• StrCount() - a very handy function to count a needle in a Haystack

• SuperInstr() - Returns min/max position for a | separated values of Needle(s)

• GetText() - copies the selected text to a variable while preserving the clipboard.(Ctrl+C method)

• PutText() - Pastes text from a variable while preserving the clipboard. (Ctrl+v method)

• GetFuncDefs() - get function definitions from a script

• ExploreObj() - returns a string containing the formatted object keys and values (very nice for debugging!)

• LineDelete() - deletes lines of text from variables / no loop

• ExtractFuncTOuserAHK() - extract user function and helps to write it to userAhk.api

• PdfToText() - copies a selected PDF file to memory - it needs xpdf - pdftotext.exe

• PdfPageCounter() - counts pages of a pdffile (works with 95% of pdf files)

• PasteWithIndent() - paste string to an editor with your prefered indent key

• SplitLine() - split string to key and value

• Ask_and_SetbackFocus() - by opening a msgbox you lost focus and caret pos in any editor - this func will restore the previous positions of the caret

• Valueof() - Super Variables processor by Avi Aryan, overcomes the limitation of a single level ( return %var% ) in nesting variables

  Windows/Gui

• WinSetPlacement() - Sets window position using workspace coordinates (-> no taskbar)

• AttachToolWindow() - Attaches a window as a tool window to another window from a different process.

• DeAttachToolWindow() - removes the attached ToolWindow

• GetFreeGuiNum() - gets a free gui number

• DisableFadeEffect() - disabling fade effect on gui animations

• RMApp_NCHITTEST() - Determines what part of a window the mouse is currently over

• SetWindowTransistionDisable() - disabling fade effect only for the window of choice

• IsWindowUnderCursor() - Checks if a specific window is under the cursor.

• GetCenterCoords() - ?center a gui between 2 monitors?

• Menu_AssignBitmap() - assign bitmap to any item in any AHk menu

• guiMsgBox() - GUI Message Box to allow selection

• DisableMinimizeAnim() - disables or restores original minimize anim setting

• GetTextSize() - a corrected version of this function from majkinetor (tested)

• MeasureText() - alternative to other functions which calculate the text size before display on the screen

• WinGetClientPos() - gives back the coordinates of client area inside a gui/window - with DpiFactor correction

• winfade() - another winfade function

• TT_Console() - Use Tooltip as a User Interface it returns the key which has been pressed

• ToolTipEx() - Display ToolTips with custom fonts and colors

• SafeInput() - makes sure sure the same window stays active after showing the InputBox. Otherwise you might get the text pasted into another window unexpectedly.

• CreateFont() - creates font in memory which can be used with any API function accepting font handles

• GetHFONT() - gets a handle to a font used in a AHK gui for example

• MsgBoxFont() - style your MsgBox with with your prefered font

• DisableCloseButton() - to disable/grey out the close button

  Listview

• LV_HeaderFontSet() - sets a different font to a Listview header (it's need CreateFont() function) - formerly this function needs a function as a rewrite of SendMessage, I changed it to a DLLCall without an extra function, the depending function CreateFont() can be also found in this file

• LV_Find() - I think it‘s usefull to find an item position a listview

• LV_GetSelectedText() - returns text from selected rows in ListView (in a user friendly way IMO.)

• LV_Notification() - easy function for showing notifications by hovering over a listview

• LV_IsChecked() - alternate method to find out if a particular row number is checked

• LV_SetCheckState() - check (add check mark to) or uncheck (remove the check mark from) an item in the ListView control

• LV_SetItemState() - with this function you can set all avaible states to a listview item

  Controls

• ControlDoubleClick() - simulates a double click on a control with left/middle or right mousebutton

• GetFocusedControl() - get focused control from active window -multi Options[ClassNN \ Hwnd \ Text \ List \ All] available

• ControlGetTextExt() - 3 different variants are tried to determine the text of a control

• getControlInfo() - get width and heights of controls

• ControlSetTextAndResize() - set a new text to a control and resize depending on textwidth and -height

• GetCPA_file_name() - retrieves Control Panel applet icon

• IsControlUnderCursor() - Checks if a specific control is under the cursor and returns its ClassNN if it is

  Other

• TaskList() - list all running tasks (no use of COM)

• ResConImg() - Resize and convert images. png, bmp, jpg, tiff, or gif

• ReleaseModifiers() - helps to solve the Hotkey stuck problem

• isaKeyPhysicallyDown() - belongs to ReleaseModifiers() function

• CreateCircleProgress(s) - very nice to see function for a circle progress

• IndexOfIconResource() - function is used to convert an icon resource id (as those used in the registry) to icon index(as used by ahk)

• GetIconforext() - Gets default registered icon for an extension

• IsConnected() - Returns true if there is an available internet connection

• RGBrightnessToHex() - transform rbg (with brightness) values to hex

• GetHueColorFromFraction() - get hue color from fraction. example: h(0) is red, h(1/3) is green and h(2/3) is blue (345)

• MouseDpi() - Change the current dpi setting of the mouse

• GetProcessName() - Gets the process name from a window handle.

• GetDisplayOrientation() - working function to get the orientation of screen

• FileCRC32() - Computes and returns CRC32 hash for a File passed as parameter

• FindFreeFileName() - Finds a non-existing filename for Filepath by appending a number in brackets to the name

• ToggleSystemCursor() - choose a cursor from system cursor list

• GetSysErrorText() - method to get meaningful data out of the error codes

• getSysLocale() - gets the system language

• URLPrefGui() - shimanov‘s workaround for displaying URLs in a gui

• ReadProxy() - reads the proxy settings from the windows registry

• CountFilesR() - count files recursive in specific folder (uses COM method)

• CountFiles() - count files in specific folder (uses COM method)

• GetThreadStartAddr() - returns start adresses from all threads of a process

• FormatFileSize() - Formats a file size in bytes to a human-readable size string

• SendToAHK() - Sends strings by using a hidden gui between AHK scripts

• ReceiveFromAHK() - Receiving strings from SendToAHK

• PathInfo() - splits a given path to return as object

[June 13, 2018]: 326 functions

• TimedFunction() - SetTimer functionality for functions
• ListGlobalVars() - ListGlobalVars() neither shows nor activates the AutoHotkey main window, it returns a string
• HelpToolTips() - To show defined GUI control help tooltips on hover.
• StringM() - String manipulation with many options is using RegExReplace (bloat, drop, Flip, Only, Pattern, Repeat, Replace, Scramble, Split)
• FileWriteLine() - To write data at specified line in a file.
• FileMD5() - File MD5 Hashing
• StringMD5() - String MD5 Hashing
• Dec2Base() - Base to Decimal and
• Base2Dec() - Decimal to Base conversion
• InjectDll() - injects a dll to a running process (ahkdll??)
• HexToFloat() - Hexadecimal to Float conversion
• FloatToHex() - Float to Hexadecimal conversion
• CalculateDistance() - calculates the distance between two points in a 2D-Space
• IsInRange() - shows if a second variable is in range
• GetRange() - another good screen area selection function
• GetComboBoxChoice() - Combobox function
• LB_AdjustItemHeight() - Listbox function
• LB_GetItemHeight() - Listbox function
• LB_SetItemHeight()- Listbox function
• GetClientSize() - get size of window without border

[June 10, 2018]: 316 functions

minor layout improvement (so I hope, anyway). In the AHK forum I read that codefolding does not work. After trying with the Sublime Text Editor I noticed that Sublime does not natively support codefolding via the syntax ;{ , ;}. Maybe that's the problem. The collection was created with Scite4Autohotkey.

• ChangeMacAdress() - change MacAdress, it makes changes to the registry!
• ListAHKStats() - Listvars with select desired section: ListLines, ListVars, ListHotkeys, KeyHistory
• LV_MoveRow() - the same like above, but slightly different. With integrated script example
• AddToolTip() - Add/Update tooltips to GUI controls
• ExtractTableData() - extracts tables from HTML files
• MouseExtras() - Allows to use subroutines for Holding and Double Clicking a Mouse Button.
• CaptureScreen() - screenshot function 4 - orginally from CaptureScreen.ahk
• CaptureCursor() - this captures the cursor, depending function of CaptureScreen()
• Zoomer() - zooms a HBitmap, depending function of CaptureScreen()
• SaveHBITMAPToFile() - saves a HBitmap to a file, depending function of CaptureScreen()

[June 02, 2018]: 306 functions

6 functions removed - depending functions not available or the functions are doubled, added some links to the sources of origin of the functions. As far as findable some feature descriptions and example scripts added.

• LV_SetBackgroundURL() - set a ListView's background image
• GetBgBitMapHandle() - returns the handle of a background bitmap in a gui
• CreatePatternBrushFrom() - can be used to repeat a pattern as background image in a gui
• GetLastActivePopUp() - passes the handle of the last active pop-up window of a parent window
• Convert() - converts ImageFiles
• GUI_AutoHide() - Autohide the GUI function
• DeskIcons() - i think its for showing all desktop icons
• WinFadeToggle()
• KilProcess() - uses DllCalls to end a process
• ConsoleSend() - Sends text to a console's input stream
• StdOutStream() - Store command line output in autohotkey variable. Supports both x86 and x64.
• LV_MoveRow() - moves a listview row up or down
• SetButtonF() - Set a button control to call a function instead of a label subroutine
• GetScriptVARs() - returns a key, value array with all script variables (e.g. for debugging purposes)
• GetAllInputChars() - Returns a string with input characters
• LoadScriptResource() - loads a resource into memory (e.g. picture, scripts..)
• HIconFromBuffer() - function provides a HICON handle e.g. from a resource previously loaded into memory (LoadScriptResource)
• hBMPFromPNGBuffer() - Function provides a hBitmap handle e.g. from a resource previously loaded into memory (LoadScriptResource)
• getNextControl() - I'm not sure if this function works could be an AHK code for the Control.GetNextControl method for System.Windows.Forms
• SaveSetColours() - Sys colours saving adapted from an approach found in Bertrand Deo's code

[May 28, 2018]: 293 functions

Organized layout, some functions moved to the right topic, delete duplicate functions, adding more info and examples*

Functionlist to Markdown.ahk - my script to handle the Markdown table output for this page. It's not a dynamic script! The output depends from the following syntax:

SystemCursor(OnOff=1) {  							;-- hiding mouse cursor

-> it search for '(' followed by a ';--' , then it recognized it as a function, it uses the comment as short description

-> it ignores all functions without ';--' or functions that marked with ';{ sub' at the beginning and ';}' at the end:

;{ sub
;If [var] in [ .. ]
InVar(Haystack, Needle, Delimiter := ",", OmitChars := "") {
	Loop, Parse, % Needle, %Delimiter%, %OmitChars%
		if (A_LoopField = Haystack)
			return 1
	return 0
}

IsWindow(hWnd*) {
	if !hWnd.MaxIndex()
		return DllCall("User32.dll\GetForegroundWindow")
	return i := DllCall("User32.dll\IsWindow", "Ptr", hWnd[1] )
		, ErrorLevel := !i
}
;}

new functions:

• LVGetCount() - get current count of notes in a Listbox
• LV_SetSelColors() - Sets the colors for selected rows in a ListView.
• LV_Select() - de- or select a row in a ListView
• SplitButton() - drop down button
• TV_Find() - return the ID of an item based on the text of the item
• FileCount(filter) - count matching files in the working directory
• AddToolTip() - adds a ToolTip to a gui button
• SetTaskbarProgress() - Accesses Windows 7's ability to display a progress bar behind a taskbar button
• RegExSplit() -split a string by a regular expression pattern and receive an array as a result
• CreateGist() - sends your script to your gist
• IsOfficeFile() - checks if a file is an Office file
• GetAllResponseHeaders() - Gets the values of all HTTP headers
• GetImageTypeW() - Identify the image type (UniCode)
• Edit_VCenter() - Vertically Align Text
• BetterBox() - custom input box allows to choose the position of the text insertion point
• BtnBox() - show a custom MsgBox with arbitrarily named buttons
• LoginBox() - show a custom input box for credentials, return an object with Username and Password
• MultiBox() - show a multi-line input box, return the entered text
• PassBox() -show a custom input box for a password
• LoadFile() - Loads a script file as a child process and returns an object
• RGBRange() - returns an array for a color transition from x to y
• SystemCursor() - hiding mouse cursor
• getSelectionCoords() - creates a click-and-drag selection box to specify an area and returns the coordinates
• Mean() - returns Average values in comma delimited list
• Median() - returns Median in a set of numbers from a list
• Mode() - returns the mode from a list of numbers
• FloodFill() - filling an area using color banks
• CreateBMPGradient() - Horizontal/Vertical gradient
• NetStat() - passes information over network connections similar to the netstat -an CMD command.
• TV_Load() - loads TreeView items from an XML string

[May 22, 2018]: 253 functions

• FindChildWindow() - a very good function to get handles from child windows like MDI childs
• WinGetMinMaxState() - returns the state of a window if maximized or minimized
• TimeCode() - result is a date-time string or only time-string (13.05.2018, 11:35:01.241) - can be useful for any kind of logging
• RegRead64(), RegWrite64() - This script provides RegRead64() and RegWrite64() functions that do not redirect to Wow6432Node on 64-bit machines. Registry calls from 32 bit applications running on 64 bit machines are normally intercepted by the system and redirected from HKLM\SOFTWARE to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node.
• CreateOpenWithMenu() - Creates an 'open with' menu for the passed file. a function by just me based on code from qwerty12
• CircularText(), RotateAroundCenter() - Given a string it will generate a bitmap of the characters drawn with a given angle between each char, if the angle is 0 it will try to make the string fill the entire circle.
• QuickSort() - Sort dense arrays or matrices based on Quicksort algorithm
• FrameShadow(HGui) - Drop Shadow On Borderless Window, (DWM STYLE)

[May 06, 2018]: 243 functions

• getByControlName() - function uses DllCalls
• listAccChildProperty() - uses COM functionality
• getText(), getHtmlById(), getTextById(), getHtmlByTagName(), getTextByTagName() -get text or html from a string
• TabCtrl_GetCurSel(), TabCtrl_GetItemText() - the first returns the 1-based index of

Complete List of functions

sometimes the function names are the same but they use different methods to get the same result