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I'm pretty new in this so bear with me...

I'm trying to assign a new hotkey for an existing, but unchangeable hotkey in PS. It's the alt + [ and alt + ] hotkeys, which I can't use because of my European keyboard. I have written this script, but it doesn’t work.


#IfWinActive ahk_class Photoshop

!PgUp::Send, {ALTDOWN}[{ALTUP}

!PgDn::Send, {ALTDOWN}]{ALTUP}

Any pointers?

Put a space between Alt and Down.

Or just try the remapping feature:
!PgUp::![
!PgDn::!]

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

Sorry, neither of these suggestions works for me...
The cursor just briefly changes into a colorpicker or something else depending on the tool chosen, which is probably because of the alt key...

PhiLho's script works here.

If you run this script:



And open notepad and press PgUp or PgDn, do you get the square brackets displayed?

Yes it works in notepad, it even works when typing text in PS, but it still doesn't work as a hotkey in PS.

It is as though the hotkey alt + [ and alt + ] is deactivated when using any other keyboard language than English...

Does these keys have a menu equivalence? You can then simulate that by using SendMessage WM_COMMAND, menuID...
Other ways are possible. What do these keys do?

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

Unfortunately the function does not have any menu equivalence...
It's a shortcut for switching between layers. A function, which in my humble opinion, should be mapped to the up and down arrow keys by default (or at least should be remappable).

Perhaps somebody with a non-European keyboard can type these keys in the Key history window and report the VK and SC codes, perhaps they can be simulated this way.
Thank you.

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

Shit, tried it but it didn't work... I had such high hopes for that method:(

Thanks anyway!

It's probably because Photoshop itself uses Alt-PgUp and PgDn for scrolling thru an image. At least it does for my version (Photoshop CS). You could try remapping another pair of keys.

Note that PS does have a whole bunch of hotkeys, so you might want to check its manual or helpfile to ensure there are no clashes.

-Lemming

I've tried using other keys and combinations that shouldn't clash with Photoshop’s own hotkeys, but I still can't get it to work...

Thanks for the suggestion though...

PS is a nasty program like Word. Try to close it with Alt-F4... You have to hold the keys down for about 2 seconds before PS reacts.
Every send-action from AHK has to have "sleep"s between. And so on.

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Peter

Wisenheiming for beginners: KaPeGe (German only, sorry)