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The above doesn't work. How to correct it?


The long story
It is meant to simplify typing local Polish characters. Normally CTRL+ALT+letter makes a king of our local umlaut.

Another way is press and hold right alt instead.

In either case there are two downsides: it collides with function shortcuts of many programs and after many years I still do not like either.

The third way is to press and release shift+Tilde. Then press the key. Not very comfortable key combination, but you don't have to hold it. So I'd like to utilize the concept by pressing and releasing one key - could well be Ralt.

I hope it makes sense


Greetings
T

`:: Send ~

works

but

Ralt:: Send ~

Doesnt. Why?

Does 'Alt::Send ~' work?

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Try this please, be carefull with Ralt ( or altGr ) , generaly it's a special key that send or wait multiple key event... depends of language , layout , keyboard, et caetera... I have the same problem problem with my french keyboard however it's work with this feature ( Ralt up )


more mysterious and complicated, tilde can be a deadkey ( diacritic ) so we need some thing like this ( don't interfer with Ralt and simulat a double deadkey )


an other solution it's to use ASCii and ( or not virtual key )


Therefore, the best solution ( for my case ) is this: (discard alt(menu) problem, diacritic, accent, and other... )
or

If your keyboard layout has an AltGr key instead of a right-Alt key, use <^>! instead of RAlt ... Other thing we need * before Ralt because ( for my case ) RAlt simulat control+alt ( so it's a double key : Wildcard: Fire the hotkey even if extra modifiers are being held down. This is often used in conjunction with remapping keys or buttons )

Your request push me to write this http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=62979
maybe an idea for you too

some polish code: alt + 0104 for example
http://adsorption.org/awm/info/pl-codes.htm

@Frankie
no, alt function does not get overridden, so if I press Alt, it highlights the function bar and keyboard becomes a function trigger.
Thus pressing alt s triggers find function.

@Zaelia

~RAlt Up:: send {ASC 126} causes no difference to Raltup

~*Ralt:: send {ASC 126} makes ralt behave like lalt


Now,
c:: send {ASC 126}
results in c outputting ~

If followed by a letter, doesn't give effect.

No surprise, because pressing shift+Tilde does not output a ~ character, it only works as a one-time caps lock-like key.



As for the routine that you wrote (thank you), so far I can tell that pressing and releasing ralt followed by numpad digits results in just the digits being input. That said, I will need more time to study its structure.

Greetings

T

Alt+126 is a "pure" tilde ( the tilde printable character), therefore just to use send ~ for your desire effect .However deadkey( a key than load an accent or an option without a printable char at first push ) work only if the tilde key is present (it's your case) in your keyboard, Else you need to use a double WM_KeyDown message in the window keyboard buffer... it's complicated...
And after this, tilde(DK) + leter gives the good result only if the final character is avaible in your keyboard layout. send unicode is a good solution I think

this script work as you want ?