17 March 2007
Hi,
{Introducing my first .ahk script --
AutoHotKey is one awesome program!}
Download PopupMenu.exe (about 212 KB)
Download CtrlMidMenu.exe (about 212 KB)
[added 2300 21 Mar 2007]
PopupMenu.exe is a compiled AutoHotKey script.
You run it by double-clicking the file; to run it at Windows' startup, move the
file to your Startup folder at
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
Once it is running, you will see a green square
icon with a white H in your System Tray (next to the clock on your Taskbar.)
You may right-click this icon to suspend, pause or exit the
program.
To use the PopupMenu, hold down your middle mouse
button (or the scroll wheel) for at least 0.2 second. The menu has five
options (the top line, the 0-BE-1 title line, is not an option) which you may
then left-click to select one; or left-click outside the menu box to close it
again. You may do this regardless of what program or window you are
currently in.
The CtrlMidMenu.exe is the same except you
must hold down the <Ctrl> key, then hold down your middle mouse
button (or the scroll wheel) for at least 0.2 second. This version is for
those folks who have already mapped something (such as <double-click>) to their
middle mouse button.
The first three options will open the Calculator,
a
Command Prompt window, or a Notepad window, respectively.
The two Search options will send the contents of
your Clipboard to Google search (option 4) or Wikipedia search (option 5).
[Select and highlight your word(s), then press Ctrl-C to copy the selected text
to the clipboard.] If you are in Notepad or MS Word, you only need to select
the text... the script will copy it to the clipboard for you; it cannot do this in
a browser (webpage) window [at least, not yet!].
Here is an actual image of the menu and the
icon:
The compiled (.exe) script is about 212
KB. If you were running the AutoHotKey program on your machine, you could
run the script directly -- the uncompiled .ahk script file is only 4 KB.
You may run multiple scripts at once.
Enjoy,
0-BE-1
http://www.autohotkey.com
Get it. Learn it. Use it.