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how to send a letter as itself when it is used as hotkey in autohotkey
When I try to run the script:
v::Send tv
it starts typing t repetitively.
And while playing with autohotkey I probably did something wrong and now it quits saying
Error at line 1.
Line Text: ; v::Send tv
Error : Invalid hotkey.
The program will exit.
(I made it a comment using ; later, the problem persisted before that.)
Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?
The hotkey is triggering itself when it sends a v. Try using $:
$v::Send tv
I'm not sure what caused it to say "Invalid hotkey".
Alternatively you can use:
:?*:v::tv ; * = no need to press enter, ? = will execute vene if letters have been typed before.
To avoid problems of not being able to use the letter v anywhere else, I normally use v\ this combination because it is easy and unique:
:?*:v\::tv
And if you want to limit the behaviour of the v key to just one application, I would use the AutoHotKey spy to get the application specific ID or name and place the hotkey inside an #ifwinactive. You will need to put SetTitleMatchMode, 2 at the top of your script. This sets the string mathing behaviour for functions like #ifwinactive. In this example v\ only works in Google Chrome.
SetTitleMatchMode, 2
#ifWinActive, Chrome ; limits the use of the following hotkey(s) to Chrome only.
:?*:v\::tv
#ifWinActive
Related
My cPanel has a text editor that allows multi-cursor functionality using Ctrl-Alt-Up, Ctrl-Alt-Down, Ctrl-Alt-Right, and Ctrl-Alt-Left. Unfortunately, Windows has default hotkeys for these key combinations that rotate the display on your screen. When I try to use these key combinations in the text editor, Windows hijacks them before they can get to the active window.
I first searched to see if there's any reasonably easy way to turn off specific Windows default hotkeys. My search only turned up results that turn off all hotkeys. I then decided to download AutoHotKeys and see if I could write a script to achieve what I was looking to do. Below are some examples; I'll stick with Ctrl-Alt-Right just to select one out of the four:
First block of code is the same in all 4 attempts:
#NoEnv
SendMode Input
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%
SetTitleMatchMode, 2 ;this and the next line should only perform the scripted
#IfWinActive Opera ;hotkey if the active window's title contains 'Opera'
Attempt 1: Hotkey correctly bypasses Windows default display-rotating action, and sends the keystrokes to the text editor in Opera. However, the text editor enters the string "ight" wherever the cursor is. There is no Ctrl-Alt-R hotkey in the text editor, and it must not be a Windows default hotkey either. So it sends Ctrl-Alt-R to Opera, which does nothing. Then it sends "ight" which is typed out. (This is the "most successful" of the 4 attempts, but definitely does not achieve the desired outcome):
^!Right::
Send, ^!Right
return
Attempt 2: Only differs from #1 with SendPlay instead of Send. The Hotkey again correctly bypasses Windows default display-rotating action. However, the text editor does not appear to do anything at all:
^!Right::
SendPlay, ^!Right
return
Attempt 3: Back to just Send, but now with curly braces around the second "Right". Now the hotkey doesn't even bypass Windows default display-rotating action (this truly boggles my mind because I would have thought that the result of Attempt #1 proves that the active Opera window was found and the keystroke Ctrl-Alt-Right is correctly being read by the ^!Right in the first line. I'm so confused why adding the curly braces in the 2nd line is negating these things that seem as if they should already have occurred):
^!Right::
Send, ^!{Right}
return
Attempt 4: Only differs from #3 with SendPlay instead of Send. The Hotkey again correctly bypasses Windows default display-rotating action. However, the text editor does not appear to do anything at all:
^!Right::
SendPlay, ^!{Right}
return
To summarize:
----------| Curly Braces | No Curly Braces |
----------|------------------|-----------------------------|
Send | Win Dflt Action | types "ight" in text editor |
SendPlay | no action | no action |
So here's the final question, based on this table, it would appear to me that Send is definitely the way to go. If (as Attempt 3 appears to indicate) the curly brace is causing the display-rotation, how do I send this keystroke to the active window without Windows hijacking it? Obviously, #IfWinActive Opera is working correctly when the curly braces aren't used. Perhaps there is another directive that prevents or bypasses Windows' default action entirely?
If you don't wish to have the screen rotation functionality, this can be disabled in your graphics panel. I believe it's associated with Intel graphics application. It might be something like, right-click the desktop, select graphics options, choose hotkeys, then click disable. This is just guessing as I don't have that on the computer I'm using, but I've encountered it on others' computers before.
As for your hotkeys, you need the curly braces around the word "right" or it will just send the individual characters, just like actually typing it. Another issue is that you need a $ in front of your hotkey since it is self-referencing; that is, it's sending the same keystrokes that activate it.
If you haven't had a chance to check out the help file, I definitely recommend it.
https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Hotkeys.htm#Symbols
I have written a python script for my co-workers, and then created an autohotkey script to run it every time someone presses Ctrl+LShift+Y. Looks something like this:
^+y::Run helper.py
The python script is fine, but the ahk script doesn't work on all the computers. Sometimes it works fine, and sometimes you get this error:
^+y does not exist in current keyboard layout
Now, searching the web this seems to be a problem with multi-language keyboards (we're using both Hebrew and English), because different languages means a different layouts (I guess?). I also found someone explaining that to solve this you need to use scan codes instead of the usual ^ and + and so on (I'd link to it but I cannot seem to find it now).
This all vaguely makes sense to me on a theoretical level, but when I want to realize it with actual code, I don't really know what to do. To me it seems as if this topic is hardly discussed (with the few exceptions being lacking in examples or hard to understand), so I'd love an answer that would include the following:
some simple way of determining the scan code for a key. This should preferably be a pythonic solution (and just out of curiosity, I'd love to know how to do this with linux as well). This is probably the easier part (but I think is an inherent part of a complete answer).
This is the important part: examples of how you implement that scan code in an autohotkey script, including edge-cases (if there are any).
Question 1
As you want to use the key with autohotkey, it makes sense to use autohotkey detect the key in the first place. Obviously this method works only on windows where autohotkey is running.
Write a Autohotkey script with this line and run it.
#InstallKeybdHook
Press the key you want to examine.
Open the script menu by right clicking the icon of the script in the right lower corner of your screen.
Select OPEN, then from the Menu "View / Key history and script info"
There is a line for each keypress.
First column is the VK (Virtual key) code, next is the scancode.
For example for CAPSLOCK the VK is 14 and the Scancode 03a
Question 2:
#InstallKeybdHook
VK14::
msgbox, you pressed capslock!
return
OR
#InstallKeybdHook
SC03a::
msgbox, you pressed capslock!
return
both work.
Note that you can combine two keys into a hotkey by combining them with & (but not 3)
#InstallKeybdHook
RShift & SC03a::
msgbox, you pressed Rshift capslock!
return
You can modify a Scancode with + and ^
#InstallKeybdHook
^+SC02C::
msgbox, you pressed Ctrl Shift and Y(maybe)!
return
Further info about this is on the page "List of Keys, Mouse Buttons, and Joystick Controls" of the autohotkey help file that comes with the default installation.
Is there a way to write an autohotkey within an autohotkey? For instance, I have an autohotkey that opens some websites in tabs at work for me & I have an autohotkey that when typed puts in my username & password for some of those sites. Is there a way to put the password autohotkey (actd(at symbol)) inside the IE tabs autohotkey? I did some searching, & it doesn't look like {#} can be sent, so I wasn't sure if there was another way to do it.
Your AutoHotKey script can #Include other scripts, assuming they are not #Persistent. You could loop through your list of tabs, and then call one or more other scripts.
As far as sending the # sign, you should be able to use the Send command without problems. If you do encounter a strange problem, then you can try using the SendRaw command or use the syntax: Send {raw}#
If this doesn't answer your question, please paste some code of what you are trying to get working.
What you can do is write two separate scripts. One does not have an autohotkey assigned, but gets called by the initial script. In your case, you have said that you already have a tabopening hotkey, so I will use a VERY rudimentary example of both scripts, but demonstrate how to send the # symbol and call another script from within a hotkey.
The two scripts I would use are:
tabOpener.ahk, and
passwordEntry.ahk
And they would appear as follows:
tabOpener.ahk
#NoEnv ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
SendMode Input ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir% ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.
; hotkey is set as WinowsKey+t and checks if FireFox exists, if so, it makes it active, if not, it starts FireFox
~#t::
IfWinExist, ahk_class MozillaWindowClass
{ WinActivate
Send ^t
} else run firefox
;Upon opening a new tab in FireFox, the address bar has already got focus,
;so send the web address (You can use COM functions for this, and are highly
;recommended, but out of the scope of this example)
Send, hotmail.com{Enter}
;Waits until page is loaded. Again COM functions are available as they can tell
;when a page is finished loading, but that is a more involved example.
Sleep 5000
;Calls the password entry script.
Run passwordEntry.ahk
return
passwordEntry.ahk
#NoEnv ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
SendMode Input ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir% ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.
;When using send, adding the {Raw} tag will literally interpret every
;character in the remainder of a string. For instance ^ will send ^
;instead of a Control keypress.
Send {Raw}Username#domain.tld
Send {Tab} {Raw}Password
Hopefully that helps. This example showed the use of the {Raw} tag for sending special characters (http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/Send.htm), in addition to calling a separate script from within one's existing hotkey using Run / Runwait (http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/Run.htm).
;~ Alt+1 to send username (email format) and password
!1::Send, myUsername#mydomain.com{tab}myPassword{enter}
depending on you web browser you could use COM objects to handle this very easily. You would find the user id password fields and then for example:
url := "http://yourwebsite.com"
wb := ComObjCreate("InternetExplorer.Application") ; create broswer object
wb.navigate(url)
wb.visible := true ; sets the browser as visible, defaults as not
While (wb.busy || wb.readyState <> 4)
Sleep 100<br>
wb.document.all.username.value := "yourname#wherever.com"
wb.document.all.password.value := "Pa$$word15"
wb.document.all.btnLogin.click()
this however depends on if you are using IE to access your site or not. Look at COM objects in the docs a bit to get a feel for it, and you will learn some really basic things about the DOM, here: Basic DOM MSDN. where I set the "username" & "password" and "btnLogin" control ids in our javascript, would need to be discovered by looking at your page. you should also check out out this tutorial: AHK Basic COM/JavaScript Tutorial
For example I want press 'v' to get 'asdfv' by autohotkey, but when I define like the below :
v::send asdfv
the script run into an infinite loop, because the last v is covered as the shortcut. So the question is, how I can get want I want.
Two ways:
#UseHook On
v::send asdfv
or
$v::send asdfv
So I'm trying to learn autohotkey scripts and the documentation is lacking at best. First, can authotkey read commands and perform actions and such inside a virtual machine? I have a windows host and a linux virtual machine running eclipse. I'd like to get a hostring (or a keyboard macro, either is fine) to put in some long (10+ lines) of text. Can that actually work in a VM or do I have to run autohotkey inside the VM for it to work?
As for implementing this, I have 2 problems. First, how do I display multiple lines of text from a keyboard macro? I know about the Send command, but I haven't figured out how that works. I have this:
:*:insert::
(
Text to
insert
goes here
and more here
)
And this works fine except in notepad++, it inserts consecutively more tabs, so it will look like
Text to
insert
goes here
and more goes here
And so in my many line macro, by the end it's several pages scrolled off the screen.
As for keyboard macro, changing the above to
#c::
Send{Raw} (
stuf
to send
)
Return
This gives syntax errors and I have no idea what the correct way of doing that would be. Should I just stick with using hotstrings?
You could try to modify the clipboard and use control + v to paste it into the proper place.
Try:
#c::
{
clipboard := "yourtext`nMultiline`nYet another line"
send, {control down}v{control up}
return
}
The first 'insert' hotstring is correct,
however, you would get the same result that you describe,
if you performed manually, the keypresses that the hotstring is sending.
To get the output you want,
you need to change these two settings:
Settings, Preferences...,
Auto-Completion,
untick: Enable auto-completion on each input
Settings, Preferences...,
MISC.,
untick: Auto-indent
the '#c' hotstring is amended below:
#c::
Send {Raw}
(
stuf
to send
)
Return