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Guest · Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 2:04 am Post subject: User determined hotkey.

How do I let the user press a key and then it stores the key into a variable and then the key is the hotkey for a specific action.

If I say

mykey = xbutton1
mykey:: send, abc

that dont work. It says mykey is not a valid keyname. Also is there a way of determining what key is pressed without having them type it into an input box. Like a box tells them to press any key for the hotkey and when the user presses it then it stores the key.

toralf · Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 3841 Location: Bremen, Germany

You could use the command "Hotkey". There has been a topic on this with a complete script going with it. Search for it.
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toralf · Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 3841 Location: Bremen, Germany

E.g. this
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1989
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Guest · Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 4:00 am Post subject:

i been searchin forever and decided to post. Well i got it before i read this but now I have a diff problem. How do I detect if a hotkey will have an error before it happens. Like adfa::send, key wont work becuz adfa is not a key. I want to detect this and give a error message for this.

toralf · Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 3841 Location: Bremen, Germany

if you would use a AHK Gui you could use the option limit on the edit box. Otherwice you have to parse the input and check it for correctness, I suppose.
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Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10480

There's also a GUI hotkey control that validates that whatever the user has entered is a valid hotkey.

Since the hotkey command could benefit from a UseErrorLevel option for creating dynamic/user-entered hotkeys without causing a runtime error, I've added this to the to-do list. Thanks.