EventGhost

Ok thats weird huh.

Here is what I get from copying the macro I have:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<EventGhost Version="1722">
<Macro Name="VLC - Show Title (forum)" Expanded="True">
<Event Name="vlc_show_title_forum" />
<Action>
Window.FindWindow(u'vlc.exe', None, None, None, None ...

2016-10-20 17:20:08 MACRO: VLC - Show Title (forum)
2016-10-20 17:20:08 ACTION: Find Window: vlc.exe
2016-10-20 17:20:08 ACTION: TextGrab: GrabText
2016-10-20 17:20:08 INFO: Text grabbed: The Departed.mkv - VLC media player
2016-10-20 17:20:08 ACTION: Python Script
2016-10-20 17:20:08 INFO: The ...

Great, sounds awesome

Ive tried it with files with titles like

The Departed, Birdman, The Wire (S02E04) - Hard Cases

and mkv, mp4, avi

Ah excellent, thanks! I'd added something in python that further edited the title down to hide episode code, then inserted the text into the clipboard on my phone, so I could paste into iMDB app haha.
Yours is great for some quick info. Although the OSD doesn't seem to be working, I can only see ...

Ok got it :p
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5092 ... e-notation

Ok now I'm getting greedy.

Can I also take out the inevitable ".mp4"? Obviously the problem is, sometimes it's .mkv or .avi - I was thinking something along the lines of:
eg.globals.grabbedText = eg.globals.grabbedText.replace('.*', '')
that would take out anything after the dot..

I've put this ...

Excellent!

I do like the little icons, so I went with option 2 :) Thankyou.

But thanks kgschlosser, that really helps get a grasp at what the equivalent python looks like for a macro I'm familiar with, will help to get more comfortable with EG/python.

** for anyone else that wants copy/paste the ...

Used EventGhost for a while, though just GUI. I am brand new to python.

I have the following macro set up to show media title in VLC in fullscreen.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<EventGhost Version="1722">
<Macro Name="VLC - Show Title 2" Expanded="True">
<Event Name="vlc_show_title ...

It seems like I cant create a macro that contains a keyboard shortcut for an Event, then a Keyboard Emulation action./ Is this normal behaviour?
I am newish to prog.

The macro works fine if I Execute Item from right-click menu in Eventghost, but if add keyboard shortcut as an Event and trigger that ...