Comments on: Keyboard Ninja: Toggle File Extension Display With a Shortcut Key in Windows

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 04:22:44 +0000

It would be useful if it was a Registry addition rather than an auto-startupTSR.

By: The Geek

The Geek — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:54:20 +0000

@oddacorn:

Sorry about that, WordPress does awful things with code. Very irritating.

By: oddacorn

oddacorn — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:15:20 +0000

The quote after the #32770 is a unicode closing quote. I was using PSPad to edit it and couldn’t figure out why it continued to highlight “OR A_OSVERSION=” as quoted text until I got the error. That’s when I figured it out. If you paste the text into your editor and then delete and retype that quote, you’ll have a script that doesn’t blow up, though it still won’t actually work.

The second more insidious problem is that the “x” in “PostMessage, 0×111″ is actually a multiplication symbol. It doesn’t generate an AutoHotkey error, but it also doesn’t refresh Windows Explorer properly. Change that to an honest-to-goodness lowercase letter “x”, and you’ll actually be able to run the code and get what you want. By the way, I find [Win] + [.] to be an intuitive shortcut for this piece of code.

Geek, I’d recommend updating the HTML to fix these little glitches and then folks can cut and paste that code. Thanks for another great tweak!

Todd Corson

By: The Geek

The Geek — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:18:16 +0000

@ville:

I uploaded a text version, linked in the article now.

By: ville

ville — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:05:42 +0000

I put it to textsnap to view it as a plain text, but the script still gives this error: Error at line 55. Line Text: (eh_Class = “#32770″ OR A_OSVERSION= “WIN_VISTA”) Error: Missing “)”

What to do?

By: ville

ville — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:01:03 +0000

AHK script won�t work, whines about unicode or something. Can you put it to textsnip (that worked for the previous script)?