Question

My son uses Google Calendar for his roster (layer2) and homework (layer1).

When a new event is manually added to the Google Calendar, I want to pre-populate the event text, to remind him not to skip important data.

So when he clicks on the calendar to add a NEW event (existing events should not be modified) the text field should already say:

Subj: Chapter: Page:

I have tried to use AutoHotKey, but the “New event” window is not detected by the AutoHotKey spy.

In the Google scripts, I have not been able to find a function like OnOpenNewEvent, to launch a script at the moment a new event window is opened.

Any suggestions on how to do this?

Answer 1

The new event window is just HTML, so no–it isn’t a new window, and AHK can’t detect it.

It looks like event templates are a commonly-requested feature, but I haven’t found any ideas on how to do it.

A couple alternative suggestions:

• Put together a script that monitors the RSS/ical feed for his calendar, and looks for events that are missing the desired tags; then take some action when the tags are missing
• Make an autohotkey script that detects a series of keystrokes, and inserts the template. For example, when he types “.hw.” in a google chrome window or firefox window, it will generate the template. See script below:

#ifWinActive ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_0
:C:.hw.::Subj: Chapter: Page:
#ifWinActive ahk_class MozillaWindowClass
:C:.hw.::Subj: Chapter: Page:
#ifWinActive

The above script requires teaching him to type the template text “.hw.”, but at least remembering one thing is easier than three.