Creating text macro system on AHK - macros

Question

I am quite new on AutoHotKey, and I'm trying to make my macro system. Currently I have a system that looks like this:
I have text variables
hi =
(
Hello,
Some more text
)
a Hotstring
::\hi::
Macro(hi)
return
And a function Macro:
Macro(text)
{
ClipSaved := ClipboardAll ; save clipboard
clipboard := text
ClipWait
Sleep, 150
Send, ^v
clipboard := ClipSaved ; restore original clipboard
return
}
The reason for using a function with clipboard is because long text blocks tend to have a delay until they are printed out, an issue that does not occur with the function.
I've found a concept called dynamic hotstrings, and I think I can somehow implement it so that I wouldn't have to write the second displayed block for every text field, but instead have a one hotstring that would understand that if it's my input starts with \ and there is a variable in the script under the name x that follows it, it should execute Macro(x), but I have never found any similar examples.
Could you provide me with a code sample or give any leads to what I should check out?

Answer 1

There are several dynamic Hotstring AutoHotkey functions, but this is probably the one you want to use Hotstring by menixator
So you need to download the hotstring.ahk and #include it as in the examples.
#SingleInstance, force
#include Hotstring.ahk
hi=
(
Hello,
Some more text
)
bye=
(
So long,
Some more text
)
Hotstring("/hi", "Paste")
Hotstring("/bye", "Paste")
return
Paste:
text:=Trim($,"/") ; we need to get rid of the leading /
text:=% %text% ; and need to dereference it
Macro(text)
Return
Macro(text)
{
ClipSaved := ClipboardAll ; save clipboard
Clipboard := text
ClipWait
Sleep, 150
Send, ^v
clipboard := ClipSaved ; restore original clipboard
return
}
There are some more elegant ways to do it, especially with the variables, you could store them in a global object (associative array) for example, but this should get you going.