Multiple sections and restoring them by an assignable hotkey

[nickjj]

I've never worked with AHK before but is something like this possible?

Things work normally as is, but a new property is introduced to the WinPos.txt file where you can assign a hotkey to a specific section which defaults to [Win] + 0.

Something like this (I know the key binding is not the correct syntax):

SECTION: Monitors=1,MonitorPrimary=1; Desktop size:0,0,2560,1440; Key:[Win]+[Shift]+1

Then, when you press that key combo it would launch that section's window layout.

Use case:

When you want to have 4 or 5 different layouts for different things and you want to jump between using them without having to manually copy / paste things around in the WinPos.txt file.

Workaround for now:

From what I gathered, the only way to do this now would be to:

1. Duplicate the current AHK script.

2. Assign a different key combo for the duplicate script (1 instead of 0 for example for save / restore).

3. Change WinPos.txt to be uniquely named (append a _1 or something to it).

4. Do business as usual and pick the layout you want on demand.

That's kind of a lot of duplication!

[rwese]

I am not sure if it is possible to configure Hotkeys dynamically like this.
One solution would be to reserve multiple keys and store the configuration in separate files, which I believe would be easy.
I will think about it.

[nickjj]

Oh, that's a nice idea about pre-registering the keys in the script.

If we go down that route with separate position configs (instead of parsing WinPos.txt), maybe the script could just create WinPos_2.txt, or whatever save invoking key was hit. Then you could at a glance know which position file maps to which key without even looking at the contents of the file.

[digaus]

Any progress?