Fixing Keyboard shortcut send in Auto Hot Key - autohotkey

Question

Hi this is a super easy question but I was hoping someone could help me solve two AutoHotKey questions.
I am trying to get the keys Cntrl, J and I to be a keyboard shortcut that sends alt,h,v, and f.
Thus far I have tried these two ways of typing it
^&j&i::Send, !&h&v&f
^ji::Send, !hvf
as well as each of those without the comma after send.
I am also looking to send these keys on a very small delay, such as 5ms between each key
I was thinking of using something like this
^&j&i::
{
Send, {! down}
sleep 5
Send, {h down}
sleep 5
Send, {v down}
sleep 5
Send< {f down}
}
but of course, that is not working either. Any help is appreciated

Answer 1

Refer to https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Hotkeys.htm#combo
Combinations of three or more keys are not supported. With this in mind we need to check the key state of the control key before defining the hotkey.
A few other things to note: SendInput is the ideal send method, and you likely want those keys back into an up state which I've included in my example.
#if GetKeyState("LControl", "P")
{
j & i::
{
SendInput {Alt down}
sleep 5
SendInput {h down}
sleep 5
SendInput {v down}
sleep 5
SendInput {f down}
sleep 5
SendInput {Alt Up}
sleep 5
SendInput {h Up}
sleep 5
SendInput {v Up}
sleep 5
SendInput {f Up}
return
}
}