Application tag {CLOSE} or {KILL} ?

[Lores]

When adding Simulated Keystrokes I can scroll down through syntax / info. And there is this Application tags section listing

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{RUN:<application>} {RUN:<full path to exe>}

What about is counterpart - i.e. something like

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{KILLPROCESS:<application>}

and / or

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{CLOSE:<full path to exe>}

?


How can I close a program with my mouse using X-Mouse Button Control?

[phil]

There is no tag to do this currently. I can add it to the todo list...
You could create a script/batch file using taskkill and then run that script using the run command I guess (but it seems the run command does not allow command line arguments (thats a shame, otherwise you could have done {run:taskkill.exe /im notepad.exe})

[Lores]

So this works

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cmd /C taskkill /IM notepad.exe /T /F

when a user writes this in already opened window od Command Line. But this

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C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /C taskkill /IM notepad.exe /T /F

or this

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run C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /C taskkill /IM notepad.exe /T /F

does not work when written in the Run Application box. But this version does work:

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C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe "/C taskkill /IM notepad.exe /T /F"

So this above is a working workaround, which does not even require creation of a BAT file with according code or LNK with its Target bearing it - but coming up with it required some knowledge


And thus I think you should add to your program an option for selecting a path to a program this is to be closed with a user chosen mouse hothkey

[Lores]

So this works

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cmd /C taskkill /IM notepad.exe /T /F

when a user writes this in already opened window od Command Line. But this

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C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /C taskkill /IM notepad.exe /T /F

or this

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run C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /C taskkill /IM notepad.exe /T /F

does not work when written in the Run Application box. But this version does work:

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C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe "/C taskkill /IM notepad.exe /T /F"

So this above is a working workaround, which does not even require creation of a BAT file with according code or LNK with its Target bearing it - but coming up with it required some knowledge


And thus I think you should add to your program an option for selecting a path to a program this is to be closed with a user chosen mouse hotkey

[phil]

I'll add it to the list, but there will be several caveats, for instance, if you have multiple notepads open (maybe different users in different logged on sessions too), I expect it will kill all of them? I guess that's not a major concern but something to consider. I don't believe the path is particularly useful (taskkill does not use the path, just the image name (exe)) so if you had two programs with the same image name, in different folders, it probably wont be able to choose between them.

Curious what you are trying to close/kill - I guess its not the active window, else why not just use {ALT}{F4} or Close Window or such like?

[Lores]

My curren dealings are with Microsoft Screen Magnifier [although all of this I can now extrapolate for other programs]

And yes, you had already added a ready to use option for toggling it ON / OFF, but it not the same as keeping them separate. And turning it ON it does not work quite the same like in HotkeyP- although I suspect that in HotkeyP I experience a bug; which I use to my advantage

[And by evoking HotkeyP I am not trying to diminish your work - as all in all I am trying to do is to come up with an optimal settings for my Windows, one way or another, i.e. using Autohotkey, X-MBC and or / HotkeyP, my programmable portable keyboard and whatever tool next I will get to know]