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based on my previous posts i figured out that both the constructions SetTimer and KeyWait for performing different actions when pressing 1 button once (maintain original function, typing the letter r) or twice (call function x) brings a significant delay. (when typing words involving r the effect is that the letter after the r comes for the r: wolrd). the solution for the problem is to assign different actions to different keys. but that makes things just more complicated, so actually it's not a solution for me.

i thought a solution might be to record the time one key is pressed down. that would fix the delay problem when typing words.


Maybe some can reflect on my point of view and help me if possible, thanks

i'm not giving up and still try to make things work. since my programming experience is not that great i hope someone could tell me if it's even possible to perform an action like this. or that i'm trying to do the impossible. thanks anyway.

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thnx, so may i conclude that the answer to the topic question is no? every function (setTime, KeyWait, GetKeyState) created has it's delay at the beginning of the script; there will be always a, no matter how short, a delay? when typing all functions fail, no becomes on..

so the proposed function is not possible?

in the case above, typing is no problem since one keystroke will always be shorter then 500 ms only when i hold the key down long enough the function will execute..

thanks anyway for the help and suggestion you did.

the solution is the usage of: A_TimeSinceThisHotkey thanks to laz0r in the irc channel #ahk =)



this function will always type an r (as rapid as writing other characters) when typing in a word processor but will execute a function when holding down the key for more then 200 ms. thanks anyway for all the support!

Thanks. found this very usefull.

One thing i noticed was that it won't be send until you actually release R. So if you hold R for 2mins, nothing happens. Any way to do it so it triggers as soon as you hit the 200ms ?

Use the timeout option:

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Ahh great idea, had thought of another way of doing it, but was abit more complex.

I've tried adding hotkeys like this to alot of the keyboard buttons, but it seems like its still causing a very very small delay (which i'm think is inevitable?). The odd thing is that even i have hotkeys on all the letters i'm trying to use, it the still come out in a different order.

For example, lets say i have hotkeys on p, o, w, e and r. And if i type power fast, i'lll end up with opewr, poewr etc. Seems odd to me that i'm getting different delay on the same code?

I noticed this delay too.

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Good to hear. What really got me wondering is how two hotkeys with the exact same code, can take different time to execute.