Script for changing segment status

Inspired by Paul's recent blog post, I've just tried for over an hour to create a script to change the segment status. Specifically, I want to be able to assign the status "Translation Approved" and "Translation Rejected" via keyboard shortcuts while I'm in "Translation" mode in the Editor.

I consulted the AHK documentation and watched a couple of tutorials and found that what I'm trying to do should be easy enough - just two mouse clicks, first on "Change Segment Status", then on the respective status. Figuring out the absolute cursor positions on my screen was also easy using "Active Window Info".

So the script below is supposed to assign "Translation Approved" in the maximized Editor window on a 27'' screen when I press Ctrl + Win key + q. But unfortunately, it doesn't. It clicks on "Change Segment Status", but then it stops without clicking on the status. Can anybody see or guess what I've done wrong here?

Thanks in advance!

Eva

;Studio 2017: Change Segment Status > Translation Approved (find absolute mouse cursor position using "Active Window Info" in AHK's program folder)
^#q::click 1346 108
click 1346 218
ExitApp

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0 Nora Díaz over 3 years ago

Hi Eva,

There's an easier way to achieve this. There's an app in the App Store called Segment Status Switcher. After installing it, you can assign keyboard shortcuts to each of the various statuses.
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0 Jesús Prieto over 3 years ago

Just add a return line after “::”.
The second click should work now:

^#q::
click 1346 108
click 1346 218
return
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0 Paul over 3 years ago

Hi Eva,

I'm learning as you are, so had a go despite there being an app for this. I thought I could use the alt keys in the script for this. So, Alt+h+u+t gets me the translated status for example. But I can't get the use of multiple keys to work correctly and always end up with the Alt keys activated in the ribbon and the letters ut in my segment. In fact I've tested this so many times now I can remember the different Alt key shortcuts for them all and this works really well ;-)

Regards

Paul
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0 Nora Díaz over 3 years ago in reply to Paul

Paul Filkin said:

So, Alt+h+u+t gets me the translated status for example. But I can't get the use of multiple keys to work correctly and always end up with the Alt keys activated in the ribbon and the letters ut in my segment.

Hi Paul,

I believe the solution to that is adding a KeyWait Ctrl line at the beginning of the script, if Ctrl is to be part of the hotkey, so something like this:

^#q::
KeyWait Ctrl
Send !h
Sleep 50
Sendinput u
Sleep 50
Sendinput t
Return

The explanation for this is in the following thread in the Autohotkey forum, which refers specifically to this issue in Studio: the Alt key not being sent on its own when the Control key is still being held down.

autohotkey.com/.../viewtopic.php

An alternative solution would be using a hotkey that doesn't use Control, then a regular script should work, I think
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0 Paul over 3 years ago in reply to Nora Díaz

Thanks Nora... I did try the wait but where I went wrong was not using Sendinput I think. But I did learn some interesting stuff along the way about the active cursor position so it was a useful hour for me... when you have nothing better to do in a hotel in the evening!
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0 Eva Repolusk-Stoppel over 3 years ago in reply to Jesús Prieto

Thanks, Jesus, works like a charm! :-)

(Strange, though, that none of the examples I used had this.)

If anyone else wants to apply it: Upon using it, I found out that I wanted to amend the script to jump into the next segment after assigning the status.

^#q::
click 1346 108
click 1346 218
send {down}
return
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0 Paul over 3 years ago in reply to Eva Repolusk-Stoppel

Nice work Eva Repolusk-Stoppel , the nice thing about this is that you can also select multiple rows and change the status which you can't do with the app.

It's like AHK opens a whole new world ;-)
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0 Eva Repolusk-Stoppel over 3 years ago in reply to Paul

Yeah, AHK really is very useful, but it does have quite a learning curve and it sometimes is difficult to take time out of a busy work day to figure out stuff like that.

That's why I'm puzzled and a bit miffed that I didn't know about the app, which is great, too (and a lot quicker and simpler). I think the reason is that the SDL Community still doesn't work the way it should for me. (You remember I had problems a while ago and you helped me by resetting my account?)

I'm glad to report that I now do get the stuff I am directly involved in. However, there is still something wrong with the daily digest. I get a "daily" digest completely irregularly about once every two weeks. I'm sure they don't go into the junk folder, because I check that daily. Is there anything you (or I) can do about it? Maybe we could try a different email address, I'm just not sure if that is possible. How closely is the Community account tied to license account? Does it need to be for the same address?
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0 Eva Repolusk-Stoppel over 3 years ago in reply to Nora Díaz

Hi Nora,

thank you so much for pointing me in that direction! I had missed that app. Certainly much simpler than my approach!

Eva
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0 Eva Repolusk-Stoppel over 3 years ago in reply to Paul

LOL, that is totally crazy. I never knew this, although I'm a mouse-hater and a keyboard-afficionado. I guess I never bothered with it because I always got where I wanted with regular shortcuts. But I don't really understand the point behind it. Why allow/support this but not regular keyboard shortcuts? I strikes me as a lot more complicated!
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0 Paul over 3 years ago in reply to Eva Repolusk-Stoppel

Indeed it is. I don't know why we don't have keyboard shortcuts for this, although I've now got the habit forming of using:

Alt+h+u+t
Alt+h+u+d etc...

We tried to do this with the app to resolve this but even using the API were unable to have this work on multiple segments, so here your AHK shortcut is working better, although it's probably different for other users depending on the size of their screen and whether they run with Studio minimised or maximised. I wanted to avoid that by using the Alt keys in the script which is why I messed around with these shortcuts.

Regards

Paul
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0 Eva Repolusk-Stoppel over 3 years ago

Thanks Raphaël Toussaint for answering to this. Although your reply is nowhere to be found on this forum, I got an e-mail notification for it. Paul had suggested that one, too, and I'm now lucky enough to have three different ways to achieve something I coudn't do at all a couply of hours earlier :-)

I honestly don't know which one of the options is going to stick, but I'm looking forward to finding out.

I'm also starting to get really enthusiastic about AHK, so I hope you won't live to regret your generous offer of helping with scripts when Paul announced this forum :-)
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0 Eva Repolusk-Stoppel over 3 years ago in reply to Paul

Personally, I don't really need this to work on multiple segments, I need it segment-by-segment during the translation process, that's why at the moment the AHK script is my preferred option because it also allows jumping to the next segment like Ctrl+Enter does while translating.
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0 Raphaël Toussaint over 3 years ago in reply to Eva Repolusk-Stoppel

Hi Eva,

After posting my answer, I saw that Paul had been faster than me, that's why I deleted it to not flood with duplicate content ;-).
I'm going with the "official" keyboard shortcuts, like this I don't need to remember yet another customized hotkey.
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0 Eva Repolusk-Stoppel over 3 years ago in reply to Raphaël Toussaint

Ah ... good to know that for once the forum wasn't the culprit ;-)
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