Request to remove AutoHotkey Plus from deprecation status

[cweijan]

Hi mark, below is my startup configuration. It works fine in Autohotkey Plus, but fails in ahk++. It can't find the ahk I installed and can't recognize the program path. I need an environment that can run ahk v1 stably, so I need to restore Autohotkey Plus. I have sent an email to [email protected] requesting the deprecation status be removed, is this enough?

[mark-wiemer]

I'll find more details on un-deprecating later. You can also install a specific version of AHK++ that might work better. Sorry this config isn't working for you, I'll look into it.

[mark-wiemer]

// .vscode/launch.json
{
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "configurations": [
    {
      "type": "ahk",
      "request": "launch",
      "name": "AutoHotkey debugger",
      "program": "${workspaceFolder}/main.ahk",
      "stopOnEntry": true
    }
  ]
}

; main.ahk
#Requires AutoHotkey v1

MsgBox % "Hello world"

Result:

Script file not found: ahkpp-603/main.ahk

(Folder name is ahkpp-603)

Weird, looking into this now

[mark-wiemer]

For reference, I used microsoft/vscode-discussions#1 to mark AutoHotkey Plus as deprecated, you can probably use the same thread if you'd like to mark it un-deprecated (ref cweijan/autohotkey-plus#106)

[mark-wiemer]

Hi @cweijan, I'll have a patch with a workaround out today. The short answer:

1. AHK++ is incorrectly looking at the currently opened file when determining whether to debug for v1 or v2. The patch will correctly look at the launch args type property, expecting it to be ahk or ahk2.
2. AHK++ does not recognize forward slashes correctly. The workaround is to use backslashes: "program": "${workspaceFolder}\\main.ahk",

Hopefully I can fix issue 2 later, but issue 1 is the real blocker right now.

Thanks for reporting this!

[cweijan]

Hi, you don't need to release it in a hurry, I downloaded the vsix of Autohotkey plus and installed it locally, I just use it to edit some simple game scripts.

[mark-wiemer]

Thanks, don't worry, I never stress myself out with volunteer coding :) that said, some stuff came up today and this release will now be pushed back to "soon (TM)", sorry. Hopefully within a week :)