AutoHotkey Community

[Laszlo]

If a HotKey has function only in certain windows or under other special circumstances, you may want to give the user an error message in a MsgBox, like

"Ctrl-Alt-z HotKey is only supported in text windows"

In this situations you often need a legible form of A_ThisHotKey. A single command could replace the ugly and incomplete:

[Chris]

It seems like it would be too rarely used to justify another built-in variable. However, when function calling finally gets added, it will be easier to have a #include'd function to do this.

[Laszlo]

I was thinking about another subcommand of transform, not a new system variable. With Rajat's scriplets tool or with #include the above code (after fixing it) is not too hard to be included in any script it needs. The reason behind my wish: since AHK is so fast evolving, the list of modifiers might change, and so we need to update our scripts manually. With the transform solution Chris will do it for us.

[Chris]

I don't think any new modifier symbols will be added because I've learned that doing so is likely to break existing scripts that rely on the modifiers being available as hotkeys. For example, on some keyboard layouts, the caret/circumflex symbol (^) might be an unshifted key that should be permitted as a hotkey, but since it's a modifier, you can't do it directly. Instead, you have to use the SCnnn method as a workaround.

It's true that the "up" suffix did sneak in there, but that will probably be the last one for a while.

Anyway, thanks for the idea, even though for now I think it should be deferred until/unless others say it's something they would want.