Sas Eg with autohotkey - toggle between open programs

[PavelD]

Hi!

I'm following up on this closed thread:
https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/SAS-EG-keyboard-shortcuts-previously-open-drop-d...

I cannot comment on that anymore.
Any news from the development team?

In particular, is there already a keyboard shortcut to switch between different open programs?

I tried to force autohotkey to "click" on the drop-down menu where the programs are listed, but with no success.

Any ideas or autohotkey snippets would be much appreciated! Thank you!

[ChrisHemedinger]

There isn't a direct key for this.  Use Shift+F6 to navigate among the main panes of your workspace, then arrow/Enter to select content in there (like programs from a list in your project tree).  You might be able to come up with an AutoHotkey script that does this for you.

[PavelD]

Thanks Chris. I seem to have the same problem as the author of the original post - F6 and Shift+F6 does not work in the editor window.

Re autohotkey script - I was exactly hoping somebody could share her/his code. I failed to produce anything usable. Thank you

[ChrisHemedinger]

Can you tell us what version of EG you're using?  Shift+F6 works for me with v7.15.

[PavelD]

7.12 HF7 (7.100.2.3491) (64-bit)
platform version 9.4.3.0

[PavelD · Accepted solution]

So here is my attempt how to simulate opening drop down menu (listing open programs) in two windows, such as here in the picture (red boxes😞

Code explained:

1) The dropdowns are located on the upper bars. Click somewhere on the upper bar and retrieve the ClassNN of these bars via MouseGetPos.

1) Get the coords of the upper left corner of the control (see the green X in the picture above).

2) Offset a little bit from the corners so the cursor is in the middle of the dropdown.

3) Click twice, with 250ms in between clicks (one click is not enough for some reason). Note: ControlClick does not work. Change the delay if needed.

4) Move cursor back where it was originally.

5) Hotkeys Alt+Left or Alt+Right to show dropdown menu in the left or right window.

ConGetPos(RightQ)
{
	;get control ClassNN of the upper bars where the dropdowns are located
	LeftBoxX = 350 ;approx location of the left bar
	LeftBoxY = 75
	RightBoxX = 1350 ;approx location of the right bar
	RightBoxY = 75
	SetMouseDelay, 0
	MouseGetPos, CurrX, CurrY
	if (RightQ = 0)
		{
		MouseMove, %LeftBoxX%, %LeftBoxY%
		MouseGetPos, , , , ClassAtPos
		}
	if (RightQ = 1)
		{
		MouseMove, %RightBoxX%, %RightBoxY%
		MouseGetPos, , , , ClassAtPos
		}	

	ControlGetPos, xCon, yCon, ,, %ClassAtPos%
	xShifted:=xCon+15
	yShifted:=yCon+15	
	Click, %xShifted% %yShifted%
	sleep 250
	Click, %xShifted% %yShifted%
	MouseMove, %CurrX%, %CurrY%
}


!Left::ConGetPos(0)
!Right::ConGetPos(1)

EDIT: First version of the code was very unstable (the ClassNN of the upper bars changes often and cannot be hardcoded).

ADDED 2018-07-03: Toggle between the right and left editor windows

If you have an older version of SAS EG (V7.12 in my case), the command F6 might not work.

Here is autohotkey workaround (keyboard shortcut RightShift+Tab):

; toggle between the right and left editor windows
; Right Shift+Tab
RShift & Tab::
;get control ClassNN of the left and right editor
	; first let's find 
	LeftEditorX = 350 ;approx location of the left editor window
	LeftEditorY = 400
	RightEditorX = 1350 ;approx location of the right editor window
	RightEditorY = 400
	SetMouseDelay, 0
	;save current coords
	MouseGetPos, CurrX, CurrY
	
	; pos of the left editor
	MouseMove, %LeftEditorX%, %LeftEditorY%
	MouseGetPos, , , , ClassAtPosLeft
	
	; pos of the right editor
	MouseMove, %RightEditorX%, %RightEditorY%
	MouseGetPos, , , , ClassAtPosRight
	; what is the class under the caret?
	MouseMove, %A_CaretX%, %A_CaretY%
	MouseGetPos, , , , CurrentCaretClass
	;toggle
	if (CurrentCaretClass = ClassAtPosLeft)
		ControlFocus, %ClassAtPosRight%
	else
		ControlFocus, %ClassAtPosLeft%

	MouseMove, %CurrX%, %CurrY%
return