Basically want to make a macro script

Thu Nov 13 14:35:55 PST 2014

On Thursday, 13 November 2014 at 22:28:43 UTC, Israel wrote:
> On Thursday, 13 November 2014 at 22:20:58 UTC, Casey wrote:
>> On Thursday, 13 November 2014 at 21:56:48 UTC, Casey wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 13 November 2014 at 16:04:43 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Thursday, 13 November 2014 at 07:01:08 UTC, Rikki 
>>>> Cattermole wrote:
>>>>> I did find this [0]. I don't know what state its in for 
>>>>> compilating/running ext. But it might give you a good 
>>>>> starting point.
>>>>>
>>>>> [0] https://github.com/pythoneer/XInputSimulator
>>>>
>>>> ooh there's some nice code for Linux in there! The Windows 
>>>> is only half implemented though... but this combined with my 
>>>> Windows code should get you enough example to write a 
>>>> cross-platform thing if you need it.
>>>
>>> Thank you so much!  I really appreciate this!  But I have a 
>>> few questions.
>>>
>>> 1) Which compiler should I use?  I'm attempting to use the DM 
>>> D comiler, but afaik it doesn't have a GUI and I can't make 
>>> any sense of how to use it otherwise.  I'll look up a 
>>> tutorial on it if this is the one you recommend.  If it's not 
>>> the one you recommend, I'll give yours a try.
>>>
>>> 2) I can't figure out what the heck half of this code means.  
>>> It seems that at the bottom you have what each of the hotkey 
>>> buttons are, and I can see a few times where you referenced 
>>> them.  I can also see a efw listeners for the keybinds to be 
>>> pressed, and then where you use the writeln command.  Other 
>>> than that, I can't tell what's going on.  I feel like a noob, 
>>> sorry that I don't understand this.
>>>
>>> 3) I'm sure that everything you have in there has a meaning, 
>>> but it looks over complicated to me.  Shouldn't it look 
>>> something like this?
>>>
>>> [code]
>>> void main() {
>>>   import std.stdio;
>>>   import simpledisplay;
>>>   import *Others that need to be imported*;
>>>   if (*hotkey command here*) {
>>>   then writeln ("We're losing Alpha!")
>>>   return 0;
>>> }
>>> [/code]
>>>
>>> I know there's a /LOT/ more to it than that, but wouldn't 
>>> that be the basics?  I honestly don't know a whole lot about 
>>> what you did, but at least I understand the basic concept of 
>>> programming.
>>>
>>> I'm going to start looking up a few tutorials on compiling 
>>> using the DM D compiler, let me know if you recommend a 
>>> different one.
>>>
>>> Could you tell me which keys you used for the hotkey in your 
>>> sample code?  I can't figure it out, but my guess it alt + c?
>>>  Not sure though.
>>>
>>> Thanks again, I am really impressed with you for actually 
>>> writing the basic concept of it for me!  I can diffidently 
>>> use this for my building block of learning how to program 
>>> better!
>>
>>
>> Ok so I've found out how to compile using the DM D compiler 
>> via terminal...  I can't cd to my directory for whatever 
>> reason... so I'm running this:
>>
>> [code]
>> dmd D:\Documents\Other\Hotkeys\D\Keybinds.d
>> [/code]
>> But it's spitting out errors left and right.  Here's what I 
>> get:
>>
>>
>> [code]
>> C:\Users\Casey>dmd D:\Documents\Other\Hotkeys\D\Keybinds.d
>> D:\Documents\Other\Hotkeys\D\Keybinds.d(11): Error: undefined 
>> identifier KEYEVEN
>> TF_UNICODE
>> D:\Documents\Other\Hotkeys\D\Keybinds.d(25): Error: module 
>> simpledisplay is in f
>> ile 'simpledisplay.d' which cannot be read
>> import path[0] = D:\Program Files (x86)\DM D Programming 
>> Language Compiler\D\dmd
>> 2\windows\bin\..\..\src\phobos
>> import path[1] = D:\Program Files (x86)\DM D Programming 
>> Language Compiler\D\dmd
>> 2\windows\bin\..\..\src\druntime\import
>>
>> [/code]
>>
>> It's basically telling me I need the two files you mentioned 
>> that are on your Github.  So I then went and got your two 
>> files, copied their stuff into their own folders, and tried to 
>> compile them.  Here's what I got:
>>
>> [code]
>> C:\Users\Casey>dmd D:\Documents\Other\Hotkeys\D\simpledisplay.d
>> D:\Documents\Other\Hotkeys\D\simpledisplay.d(274): Error: 
>> module color is in fil
>> e 'arsd\color.d' which cannot be read
>> import path[0] = D:\Program Files (x86)\DM D Programming 
>> Language Compiler\D\dmd
>> 2\windows\bin\..\..\src\phobos
>> import path[1] = D:\Program Files (x86)\DM D Programming 
>> Language Compiler\D\dmd
>> 2\windows\bin\..\..\src\druntime\import
>>
>>
>> C:\Users\Casey>dmd D:\Documents\Other\Hotkeys\D\color.d
>> OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 8.00.15
>> Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989-2013  All rights reserved.
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/optlink.html
>> OPTLINK : Warning 23: No Stack
>> color.obj(color)
>> Error 42: Symbol Undefined __fltused
>> color.obj(color)
>> Error 42: Symbol Undefined __d_arraybounds
>> color.obj(color)
>> Error 42: Symbol Undefined __memset80
>> color.obj(color)
>> Error 42: Symbol Undefined __d_assert
>> color.obj(color)
>> Error 42: Symbol Undefined __d_arraycatT
>> color.obj(color)
>> Error 42: Symbol Undefined __d_throwc
>> color.obj(color)
>> Error 42: Symbol Undefined 
>> _D6object9Exception6__ctorMFNaNbNfAyaAyakC6object9Th
>> rowableZC9Exception
>> color.obj(color)
>> Error 42: Symbol Undefined __d_newclass
>> color.obj(color)
>> Error 42: Symbol Undefined _D9Exception7__ClassZ
>> color.obj(color)
>> Error 42: Symbol Undefined _D12TypeInfo_Aya6__initZ
>> color.obj(color)
>> Error 42: Symbol Undefined __d_arrayappendcTX
>> color.obj(color)
>> Error 42: Symbol Undefined _D14TypeInfo_Array6__vtblZ
>> color.obj(color)
>> Error 42: Symbol Undefined __d_assert_msg
>> color.obj(color)
>> Error 42: Symbol Undefined 
>> _D9invariant12_d_invariantFC6ObjectZv
>> color.obj(color)
>> Error 42: Symbol Undefined _D11TypeInfo_Ah6__initZ
>> color.obj(color)
>> Error 42: Symbol Undefined __d_newarrayT
>> color.obj(color)
>> Error 42: Symbol Undefined __d_arraycast
>> color.obj(color)
>> Error 42: Symbol Undefined _D15TypeInfo_Struct6__vtblZ
>> color.obj(color)
>> Error 42: Symbol Undefined __d_arraycatnT
>> color.obj(color)
>> Error 42: Symbol Undefined __d_arrayappendcd
>> color.obj(color)
>> Error 42: Symbol Undefined _D11TypeInfo_Aa6__initZ
>> color.obj(color)
>> Error 42: Symbol Undefined _D6object6Object8toStringMFZAya
>> color.obj(color)
>> Error 42: Symbol Undefined 
>> _D6object6Object8opEqualsMFC6ObjectZb
>> color.obj(color)
>> Error 42: Symbol Undefined _D6Object7__ClassZ
>> color.obj(color)
>> Error 42: Symbol Undefined _D6object6Object6toHashMFNbNeZk
>> color.obj(color)
>> Error 42: Symbol Undefined _D14TypeInfo_Class6__vtblZ
>> color.obj(color)
>> Error 42: Symbol Undefined _D6object6Object5opCmpMFC6ObjectZi
>> color.obj(color)
>> Error 42: Symbol Undefined _D3std9algorithm12__ModuleInfoZ
>> OPTLINK : Warning 134: No Start Address
>> --- errorlevel 28
>>
>> [/code]
>>
>> I'm not sure what this all means, but I'm sure I'm doing 
>> something wrong.  It doesn't spit out any files, and from what 
>> I've seen it's supposed to spit out 3 new ones.
>
> All 3 files need to be in the same folder. (simpledisplay.d,
> color.d, hotkeys.d)
> When you call dmd youre only calling 1 file which was hotkeys.d.
> You need to specify the other 2 like this.
>
>>dmd "D:\Documents\Other\Hotkeys\D\simpledisplay.d" 
>>"D:\Documents\Other\Hotkeys\D\color.d" 
>>"D:\Documents\Other\Hotkeys\D\hotkeys.d"

Ok so I ran that, and it sends me the error that Windows can't 
open this type of file, and asks me if I want to look for a new 
program to run it or select one from the installed list.  I told 
it to open it with the dmd.exe compiler, and now it apparently 
just made a new file called "dmd" with the type of "File".  It's 
0KB in size, so that didn't work.

The other two commands tell me that the syntax is wrong, so idk.