Use Window Name and Exe's for Conditionals

[rajlego]

With AHK, you can make conditionals based on:
-ahk_class: name of window
-ahk_exe: the exe that the app is running from
-ahk_pid: the process ID
Currently (from what I understand) talon can use window titles but for certain applications those are dynamic. For me personally, I hope to be able to use ahk_class and ahk_exe both:
-I need to differentiate between different windows from the same exe
-I have multiple exes for the same application (I have one instance of SuperMemo open for use with plan/tasklists while I have a separate one for incremental reading)
Being able to seperate those out is very valuable.

If useful for reference, this is the current ahk script I am using. If more info is needed, happy to provide.

[lunixbochs]

I've done some work on this, which will land in the beta soon:

In a .talon file match section, win.class: TPlanDlg corresponds to ahk_class TPlanDlg.
In Python, win.cls will correspond to ahk_class on the Window object (You can't use the name class as a normal property in Python, hence the inconsistency)

I can trivially add app.pid: 1234 matching in .talon files, but PIDs are dynamic so that doesn't make much sense to hardcode in a file. I can think of some other ways to work with specific instances of apps from talon files, so if a need arises let me know and I'll work with you on it.

From your code:

---

if !WinExist("ahk_exe sm18j.exe") {
	run "C:\supermemo-collection\Journal.lnk"
}

In knausj, I think you can do this as something like:

not user.running: sm18j
-
voice command: user.system_command("C:\supermemo-collection\Journal.lnk")

I should probably make a default talonscript command that is the equivalent of "open this file in the default manner", so you could e.g. open("C:\supermemo-collection\Journal.lnk")

---

else if WinActive("ahk_class TMsgDialog") {
	Send y
}

This would just be:

win.class: TMsgDialog
-
voice command: key(y)

---

else if WinActive("ahk_class TPlanDlg") {
	Send {ESC}
}

is just

win.class: TPlanDlg
-
voice command: key(esc)

---

else if WinActive("ahk_class TTaskManager") {
	Send {ESC}
	WinActivate ahk_exe sm18j.exe
	Send ^p
	Send {PGDN}
}

is

win.class: TTaskManager
-
voice command:
    key(esc)    
    # WinActivate ahk_exe sm18j.exe
    # I don't have a perfect answer for window focusing yet, it might look like:
    # win.focus("sm18j.exe")
    key(ctrl-p pagedown)

---

else if !WinActive("ahk_class TPlanDlg") {
	WinActivate ahk_exe sm18j.exe
	Send ^p
	Send {PGDN}
}

is something like this:

not win.class: TPlanDlg
-
voice command:
    # this win.focus() action doesn't exist yet, please file an issue if you want something like this :)
    win.focus("sm18j.exe")
    key(ctrl-p pagedown)

[lunixbochs]

closing this issue because all of this is in the current early access beta