How do I use autohotkey to create a new text file by right click -> New -> New text document? [closed]

Question

I want to create a new text file by right click -> New -> New text document using AutoHotKey. How do I do this? I am new to AutoHotKey.

Edit:

Using Autohotkey, you can assign shortcut for some tasks such as running a particular program like Notepad. You do so by writing scripts. You can find the details on the Autohotkey website. I want to write a keyboard shortcut to manually automate the "right click -> New -> New text document" functionality.

I figured out that it could be done by adding the following script to to AutohotKey's existing script.

^+t::
  Click, right, 1024, 355 (or any other mouse co-ordinates for that matter)
  Send w
  Send t
 return

However, this syntax wouldn't work when I tried. Could someone tell me what's wrong and tell how should be the correct syntax?

Answer 1

As Ken White said you already have that built in Windows Explorer, Right click > New > New Text Document, so it's kinda pointless having another one doing the same thing.

However, if you want to use AutoHotKey to create a new text file more efficiently and faster then i would recommend this script

SetTitleMatchMode RegEx
MsgBox, 64, NewTextFile, USAGE: When in a folder in Windows Explorer press Ctrl + Shift + T to create empty text file.`nIf you press multiple times, multiple files will be created (e.g. NewTextFile0.txt, NewTextFile1.txt)

#IfWinActive ahk_class ExploreWClass|CabinetWClass
    ^+t::
        NewTextFile()
        return
#IfWinActive

NewTextFile()
{
    WinGetText, full_path, A
    StringSplit, word_array, full_path, `n
    Loop, %word_array0%
    {
        IfInString, word_array%A_Index%, Address
        {
            full_path := word_array%A_Index%
            break
        }
    } 
    full_path := RegExReplace(full_path, "^Address: ", "")
    StringReplace, full_path, full_path, `r, , all

    IfInString full_path, \
    {
        NoFile = 0
        Loop
        {
            IfExist  %full_path%\NewTextFile%NoFile%.txt
                    NoFile++
                else
                    break
        }
        FileAppend, ,%full_path%\NewTextFile%NoFile%.txt
    }
    else
    {
        return
    }
}

When you have this running and you are in a folder using Windows Explorer (or Desktop) press Ctrl+Shift+T to create New text files, as many as you'd like.

https://github.com/ilirb/ahk-scripts/blob/master/executable/source/NewTextFile.ahk