Elite Dangerous Autohotkey Bookmarks

Using Autohotkey I have built a script that that helps import bookmarks posted from other sources.

With the current limit in Elite Dangerous to total number of saved bookmarks, keeping long distance routes becomes unreasonable. As our saved bookmarks quickly become cluttered with routes. This was my solution to keep the bookmark list clean, but still have an ability to save long distance routes out of the game that we can import quickly when we want to use them.

Original Problem: Before this script when we wanted to plan a long distance journey using neutron stars, we would have to keep toggling back and forth between the game and our planned list of systems, copy and pasting each destination one at a time.

Solution: This script will take up to twenty star systems you have planned for your trip, and compile them into a hotkey that you can use to automatically import them into the galaxy map. The newly created file can then be renamed and saved for later use, avoiding the original problem. The script only imports twenty systems at a time to allow for ease of bookmark management so it does not become overloaded quickly. Once the twenty systems have been traveled we can remove them from our bookmarks and load another twenty to continue our journey.

The idea of saving the route as bookmarks in the Universal Cartographics map is so we can quickly open the map and select the next destination without having to search for the next star system each time. Ideal for Neutron star aided travels.

How it works: After installing Autohotkey from the above link. Ensure the you have the following keymapings for Elite Dangerous. These are the keys the script uses to import bookmarks.

• "M" = Mode Switches / Open Galaxy Map
• "E" = Interface Mode / Next Panel Tab
• "Space" = Interface Mode / UI Panel Select
• "D" = Interface Mode / UI Panel Right
• "A" = Interface Mode / UI Panel Left

1. Right Click on the desktop, New / Autohotkey Script
2. Copy the contents from the below Google Document to that new script and save it as "20 Route Builder Script"
3. Double click on the new "20 Route Builder Script" and it will load it into the system tray. (Next to the clock)
4. Pressing "Ctrl+Insert" will start the script, it will ask for 20 bookmarks to add, one at a time. You can copy them from any of the Elite Dangerous route planners such as http://www.spansh.co.uk/ or your own saved list.
5. After entering the last bookmark the script will open a notepad and build the new script file to use in Elite Dangerous. It will save it as "Route.ahk" to your default save location. Feel free to rename the "Route.ahk" if you want to save multiple routes. This is ideal so we don't have to rebuild it next time we plan on using the same route.
6. Now unload the "20 Route Builder Script" from the system tray by right clicking on it and select "Exit"
7. Double click on "Route.ahk" to load it into the system tray
8. With Elite Dangerous as the active window, when you press "Ctrl+Insert" it will automatically open the Galaxy map and start saving the 20 bookmarks.

Notes: I have not found a good script to remove those 20 bookmarks safely and not affect bookmarks you want to keep, The method of adding bookmarks by system name can not be used to also remove them. But some tricks I've used is to rename the book marks I want to keep by adding a "~" before the system name. (Example: "~PSR J1752-2806")This will force it to show up at the bottom of the list. so when I start deleting bookmarks, I don't have to hunt for the ones I don't want to keep, they will all be at the top of the list.