New purchase question and suggestions for help documentation

x944 · Post by **x944** » Jul 24th, ’23, 15:45

Hi,

I searched for some while on the forums and could not find a successful way to do it. I then tried examples that are supposed to work with autohotkeys but give error on FastKeys.

Note: I recently purchased the software.

I cannot find out how to paste the clipboard content using a start menu option. It seems most examples are for text expander options.

In my case, what I want is to just search a website, adding the option to my custom start menu I built.

Example:
www.example.com?keyboard=%clipboard%

I just want to select that menu from the start option, and it should basically go to the website and search for that keyboard in the clipboard. I did managed to do this somehow with some authotkeys example, but it's very awkward as it passed it as a CMD argument, which means a CMD popup opens first for every search.

Is there a cleaner way to do this?

I just want to add different search website options to my start menu.

Even better, if I could actually do this on a selected word. Currently, my idea was just to manually select a word, copy it, and then select the option from the start menu, but maybe there is a way to do this automatically on select text which would be great. That way you can just select any text, and pick the search option you want, example DuckDuckGo, WikiPedia, Dictionary, etc.

Also I would like to suggest the documentation should be improved a bit. For example, for the auto-recording macro, what does the Windows Action option mean, for example? The other fields are self-explanatory, but I don't actually know what this means when this option is selected.

There is also no clear indication where to store record macros. Example, I want to create 5 macros I can autoplay on a specific website I use to replicate a demo. Where should I store them? As text expanders? As shortcuts?

Post by **Marko** » Jul 25th, ’23, 08:32

Hi and welcome to FastKeys.

Could you try the examples in this thread to see if it helps?
viewtopic.php?t=66

Thanks for your suggestions, we will try to improve in the future.

The best way to record a macro is to add a new item and select “Record” icon. The recorded macro will be stored imto the command field.

x944 · Post by **x944** » Jul 26th, ’23, 04:14

Thank you! That is precisely what I was looking for.