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I have two monitors and love playing RPG games, but I'm quite forgetful so I like to take notes with my second monitor. The problem is, I always have to alt+tab, type notes, and restore the game. Sometimes several times.

I wanted to keep notepad open on my second monitor, have a toggle button that will switch between sending all the keystrokes from the game, to the background notepad window, and then turn it off.

I've found suspend works great for this, but the problem I am having after that is finding out how to send keys to Notepad, without having to make 100+ individual hot keys!


So is there a way to cause every key press trigger this and send the key that was pressed to Notepad? Thanks!

Here is an example and it works great so far:

Maybe you need Anykey . . . !!

Perhaps . . . ??

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Hope this helps / Thanks <-------- (Delete Appropriate)

Chris

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The quick onyx goblin jumps over the lazy dwarf

This didn't do anything.

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The quick onyx goblin jumps over the lazy dwarf

Tried it again and it worked this time, the problem is that that code has to be the first thing in the script. The next problem is while it captures text keys, it doesn't capture enter, return, arrows, I can't backspace or navigate to edit the text. Second, I can't trigger the pause because it's outside of the loop?

Better, but still not functional.

You can't trigger the pause? I don't know, but it works on my PC

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The quick onyx goblin jumps over the lazy dwarf

I had something started for something like this, a long time ago. However, I noticed I didn't really get far... but it works!



I had planned to basically add a GUI where you could set up the "target windows", any more ideas?

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~sumon • Appifyer• AHK Nova halted • Recommended: AHK_L (Why?)

Yeah, for some reason the Pause key on my keyboard isn't triggering it, but when I changed it to another key it worked. The arrow keys work great, so that is just a mater of adding the extra function keys.

Now the problem is the suspension of the hot keys.

The script works perfect, but only if the first lines of code are:



When paused, all the keys return to the game and work normally. However, the function hot keys, (Left, Right, Etc) continue to be captured and sent to Notepad instead of the game making them unusable. The fix is toggling suspend and pause together, but suspend can only be toggled if it's the first line of code and if Suspend is the first line of code no keystrokes are captured. If Start: is first, keystrokes are captured, but suspend can only be toggled off and never on again.

Look at the docs for suspend. You can allow that hotkey to trigger regardless of the suspend state.

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How about two separate scripts? Place them in a same folder..



Run the Launcher first, and then press F1 to capture and F2 to stop..

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The quick onyx goblin jumps over the lazy dwarf

Please, please, please don't use Goto to form loops. That's what Loop is for.

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I wouldn't use it as an example, but for quick one-time-use scripts I have no problem with it. In this case it doesn't make much difference, and in my opinion: it looks better.


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The quick onyx goblin jumps over the lazy dwarf