[Rwp] my early work with sfz player using a dedicated process so opening up in another window

[Chris Belle]

Hey I got to bucket mouthing and forgot to put the link in here.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10911937/reaper%20sfz%20autohotkey%20script.zip?dl=1

Now this one should work if you follow instructions and put your sfz in 
a dedicated process.
Here's something to note.
Osara seems to have stolen all the hotkeys for itself, so you will have 
to use the hot-strings.
like load.
l.
and the like, I forget all the strings I defined, but you can look in 
the source code and tell, and also the read me,
that's one reason I really love autohotkey because if you want to you 
can totally leave out using precious hot keys and use hot strings.
which gives you an endless supply of command variables to use.
So just use the hot strings I've defined, in the source code, before 
each command to click you'll see them in double colons,
I've defined several logical hot strings for each command, I like to use 
the sfz player when testsing my little coding projects because it's 
small and not too unweildy and it's a tool I still love to use.
So have fun, hopefully it will help someone.
And modify the code to your liking.
I did compile an executable in there, but you can use that, or you can 
go download autohotkey and use the .ahk file.
How ever you want to use it.

On 3/10/2016 9:08 AM, Chris Belle wrote:
> If anyone wants to mess with this, here's my auto-hot script I did 
> years ago probably around reaper 4 for the sfz player.
> I will include source ahk file so spots can be adjusted if necessary.
> You do need to run this one with the plug-in opened in a dedicated 
> process, ie in a separate window.
> I tried to get this to work from the fx window with the sfz window in 
> there, but I could not, not sure what all the differences are yet, but 
> I know it works with the separate window.
> I want to make some comments about what I've noticed working with 
> golden cursor as well.
> When I was trying to re-produce what I had done with ahk in golden 
> cursor, I noticed that even in the separate window, my cordinates were 
> way different than what I had with ahk and window-eyes and jaws.
> they are reporting on the actual window of the dedicated process I 
> think while golden cursor is still using reaper as a reference, so 
> it's almost like that window is still in the fx window.
> Golden cursor can't get a reading from the bridged window the plug-in 
> opens in, but funnily enough, autohotkey can.
> Wen I tried to save spots using golden cursor it kept erroring out, 
> once it couldn't find the spots file, then it saved it in my old 
> reaper file which i made in the first place, another time it did 
> something called explorer.
> so there is some crazy jiggery pokery going on as Scott says,
> ha.
> Now maybe autohot doesn't have to search for an actual window but can 
> ping in on the title bar,
> I know that program is pretty sophisticated, I did pretty good with it 
> for my skill level with coding, but the deeper elements of it are 
> beyond me, it comes with some sniffer tools,
> I have sniffed out controls and such and done some primitive object 
> oriented programming, calling control names instead of just clicking 
> on a pixel, and calling other executables, I built a little program
> to un-mute the sound card which is just a brute force thing that turns 
> on your sound card, and pushes volumes up and even runs narrator, just 
> to get myself out of trouble, the difference in this thing and others 
> is you don't have to install it.
> But I am not a serious programmer, but if I can I like to use these 
> little helper tools to help myself and others, and I've even sold a few.
> but right now
> as far as I can tell, the bridged window in separate process is not 
> compatible with the non bridged version in the fx window, I'll have to 
> poke around to see if some sort of off-set is happening,
> becaus when I used golden cursor,
> it did actually kick me off in the other window as if I were there.
> Even though it can't see the window title if I actually go in there,
> and doesn't work, if I stay in reaper, it will kick me off in the 
> other window as if it were still in the fx window I hope I haven't 
> confused everybody too badly.
> This whoe thing is confusing, I'm just trying to figure out what works 
> with what, but right now I know this.
> My ahk script works if I put sfz in the separate dedicated process 
> window.
> And it can trigger on the fact that sfz is in the title name.
> I have golden cursor working if i do it standard sfz in the fx window 
> way, and then it creates a file called reaper.gc
> so it's triggering on reaper itself,
> which I suspect is not the top level window name but the main 
> application window name,
> when I tried to save things in golden cursor while in the bridged 
> window in separate process thing, it did weird things, and nothing 
> consistant, so there you have it.
> Jamie, I do realize now the point you were making, that the plug-in 
> window may not have a name, and it is in a wrapper and that is probably
> the window name, I hope I got it right now,
> you and snow man
> understand the programatical elements
> a whole lot better than I do, I'm one of these people just trying to 
> find out what works,
> and go with it, but here's another funny thing I can't figure out why 
> it's not working.
> I can not make autohotkey work in the non bridged mode at all, even 
> when I take out the window criteria,
> or put in what's in the title bar in the fx dialogue, or what I can 
> see of the sfz window below it,
> it won't run.
> I can tell because even if I click something with a macro in the wrong 
> place, it will tell me something happened, but nothing is happening.
> I use jaws or window-eyes
> when trying to make cordinates a lot of the time to find out where 
> things are because NVDA doesn't have a native mode to tell the pixel 
> distance in the window you are in, maybe I need to go grab that old 
> mouse movement thing you wrote me a long time back, and see if it can 
> do anything golden cursor can't, but
> I know that jaws and wineyes will both translate to one another pretty 
> well in the active window you are in.
> So i tend to flop around from diferent readers to tell what's going on.
> When we get a tool which can read from the top left of any given 
> window whether child or parent, with NVDA then I won't have to do that 
> anymore, but hey, Rome wasn't built in a day.
> I was just rying to make some simple spots for peole and here we went 
> down a rabbit hole, but I am learning so hey, that's good.
> Thanks to both of you Jamie and snowman and your giant brains for all 
> you do.
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