So in my previous post (Authotkey and Eclipse Autocomplete) I was trying to replace a snippet with an AutoHotkey script. One thing I was lacking was automatically inserting the file name which you can easily do in a snippet by inserting $${CURRENTFILE} into your snippet.
Doing this in AutoHotkey was a bit more involved…
There didn’t seem to be a way to directly get the file name. After another post on the forum someone suggested I look at WinGetTitle which will get the title of the active window. Looking at CFEclipse the title does show the file name:
Eclipse Titlebar with Path
The path was there but also some extraneous text I didn’t want. There is probably an easier way to do this with RegEx but I went for a quick and dirty replace:
WinGetTitle, Title StringReplace, Title, Title, % " - Eclipse" StringReplace, Title, Title, % "CFEclipse - "
So now I had a cleaned up path but I really just wanted the file name. Turns out AutoHotkey has a SplitPath command which you can use to return various bits of the path: drive, path, filename.
My initial attempts trying this didn’t work. Then I realized since AutoHotkey was a Windows program it was confused by the path returned by Eclipse. I did another replace to flip the backslashes:
StringReplace, Title, Title, /, \, All SplitPath, Title, Title
And this time I got just the file name!
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