AutoHotkey Community

Hi,
I did a little bit of research in the forum but didn't find exactly what I needed.

I need to make one of my mouse buttons show a dropdown menu of "commands". When I click on one of these "commands" it sends a specific keystroke.

For example, I press 'mouse 4'. A list is displayed, first item of the list says "Line". When I click on "Line", AutoHotkey sends the keystroke 'L' (as if pushing the L key on the keyboard).

This is what I have so far. The problem with this is that it sends "Line" instead of 'L':

Menu, dsc, Add, Line, mymenu
Return

XButton1::
Menu, dsc, Show
Return

mymenu:
sleep 100
SendInput %A_ThisMenuItem%{ENTER}
Return

Here is one way I've seen this done. It permits any label to execute any code. Depending on what you intend to send you may not need separate subroutines.

Well you could do without the subroutines and do if statements...

Correct. The variable A_ThisMenuItem contains the full text of the menu item choosen.
So if you want to get only the letter L from the menu Line you must extract the first letter from the var or create several subroutines, as keybored suggest in his post, to do the work for you. So said, if you only want to paste the first letter of the menu item clicked you can try this:

Thanks keybored and Odlanir, it worked great!

Now, if I wanted that when I click 'Line' it did other commands such as "^!{UP}"... would I need to do that by creating a subroutine for each menu item?

I was hoping there was a simpler way, thanks!

not necessarily.You can use a single soubroutine to handle all the variuos entry in your menu by testing the MenuItem name.