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problem getting hot keys specific to an application

 
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reynoldscr
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PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2005 5:17 am    Post subject: problem getting hot keys specific to an application Reply with quote
I use Delphi 5 for my work, and the editor doesn't provide a Ctrl-a select all shortcut, so I figured I would use autohotkey to produce one. Ideally I'd like for Ctrl-a to give me a select all in Delphi, and just work as normal in other applications, so I figured the following would work
Code:
^a::
ifWinActive, ahk_class TEditWindow
{
  Send, ^{HOME}
  Send, ^+{END}
}
else
  Send, ^a
return

However, the Ctrl-a doesn't work in other applications for some reason. They don't seem to like taking the Ctrl-a from the Send command. I could map the hotkey to something else, but I would preferr not to. Can anyone tell me if it's possible to do what I'm after?

For the moment I have it working by suspending all hotkeys when I'm not on the Delphi window, but that suck, because it means that I can only use Autohotkey for Delphi.

Any Help greatly appreciated.
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Chris
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Joined: 02 Mar 2004
Posts: 10480
PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2005 10:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
The only thing missing is a $ in front of the ^a on the top line. This allows a hotkey to send itself, which is otherwise impossible because the hotkey would try to trigger itself. The following slightly more pure hotkey might also work if Delphi normally ignores ^a:
Code:
~^a::
ifWinActive, ahk_class TEditWindow
{
  Send, ^{HOME}
  Send, ^+{END}
}
return
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reynoldscr
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PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2005 10:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
sweet, thanks for that.

I figured there must be a way to prevent the supressionof the hotkey's normal action, but I had managed to miss the usage of "$" and "~" in the help. That will teach me to look harder in the future.

Thanks a lot Chris, know I had my suspicions that this can be done, I'm sure I'm going to find a lot more uses for this great application.

Cheers.
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