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[cool-RR]

Hi,

I'm inside the function that handles a hotstring. I want to see the hotstring exactly as it was typed, so I could know which letters where capitalized and which weren't. A hotstring like "btw" could be typed "Btw" or "BTW" or "bTW". Does AHK let me access that inside a function that handles a hotstring?


Thanks,
Ram.

[dylan904]

Sure, well what you would do is make a list of your *case-sensitive* hotkey for your hotstring like so...

:C:Btw::
:C:BTW::
:C:bTW::
:C:BTw::
:C:btw::
MsgBox % "You typed " SubStr(A_thishotkey, 4)
return

A_ThisHotkey is a built-in variable containing the hotkey that triggered the current thread.
The prefix :C: is to make the hotstring case-sensitve.
You have to do a SubString to overlook the :C: prefix of the hotkey.

[cool-RR]

Thank you, but that does not solve the problem. I want to get the exact form that the hotstring was typed in *without* having to list all the permutations like that.

[dylan904]

Alright, in that case you would use the Input command like so...

#SingleInstance Force
Input, Typed, V,,btw
If (ErrorLevel = "Match")
   MsgBox You pressed %Typed%

[Leef_me]

I'm inside the function that handles a hotstring. I want to see the hotstring exactly as it was typed, so I could know which letters where capitalized and which weren't. A hotstring like "btw" could be typed "Btw" or "BTW" or "bTW". Does AHK let me access that inside a function that handles a hotstring?

The capability does not exist. Characters are converted to lower case.

[cool-RR]

Thanks everybody!