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Thanks for reporting the bug (and your patients...).

You can reproduce the behavior in this code.a::b ;remap
a & b::MsgBox,% A_ThisHotkey ;prefixThe remapped a appears to do nothing because the prefix a blocks its down event, so onl ...

It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the backspace, but rather with use of the key::otherkey syntax for remapping. So long as that line is replaced with a standard hotkey to send a replacement ...

I guess you missed my last post as I did find and detail the cause of the problem, although I don't quite understand why it caused the problem.

Yes, it's a long script but actually not that complex ...

Okay, I've isolated the problem but I don't understand it.

My hint came from looking at the key history. Here is the history for pressing and releasing the XButton1 button in notepad using the scri ...

I'm in EST... (Couldn't sleep yesterday night...)

Thanks.

Honestly, I can't find anything that should have this effect. I'm going to post my entire script (with one edit since I have a hotkey that enters in my email password). If you find you have a few minu ...

Hi, thanks for the reply.

I tried your first script and it worked as expected. When I replaced RButton with XButton1, however, it only triggered the wheel combination hotkeys but not XButton1 by it ...

What have I done wrong here?

http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Hotkeys.htm#Symbols
search for "its key's native function will not be blocked"

Sorry, but I think I need some explan ...

I have the following code in a script:

#IfWinActive ahk_class Photoshop
XButton1:: ; step back in history
send, ^!z
return

Xbutton2:: ; step forward in history
send, ...

Hi,

I've got Autohotkey running in Windows 7 64bit. I've got a Virtualbox virtual machine running in the background. Even though I've disabled the automatic keyboard grabbing feature for the virtua ...

I started playing with the WheelLeft and WheelRight keys to try and detect horizontal scroll action from the mouse or mimic it through a send command.

I'm running Windows 7 64bit.

However, when ...

For an autohotkey script to interact with any elevated application it has to itself be launched as elevated.

There are a number of ways to do this. You can write a simple batch file to run autohot ...

disable UAC
google for how to do it

alternatively, you can decide the permission level while compiling scripts
for that use

I have no interest in disabling UAC as I feel it's a useful securit ...

I've got an Autohotkey script setup to run at login on a Windows Vista machine (now actually running Windows 7 beta). Initially I just put it in the startup folder but found that various hotkeys won't ...