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[HotKeyIt]

Using this function you can send keystrokes or launch a Label by pressing a key several times.

Include the function in your script or save it in .\Lib folder (RapidHotkey.ahk).

Many thanks to Laszo for Morse(), I have modified it to capture invalid keys.
Please note, my Morse() version does not detect long key presses

Syntax:

[Laszlo]

Nice! You can extend the idea with detecting the lengths of key presses, like here.

[HotKeyIt]

[HotKeyIt]

Now you can specify a different action on specified times of presses.

[HotKeyIt]

Easy MultiMenu example.

Press RButton twice to display Programs Menu, 3 times for Settings Menu, 4 times for FolderMenu.

To add a menu item, you need to add a new Label in your script and add its name to programs, settings or folders variable in first lines.

[EricCartman]

You guys are my new heroes.

With all of the heavy lifting done by HotKeyIt, Laszlo, and ManaUser, the following script disables the Caps Lock key on one press, brings up ManaUser's super handy capitalization utility on two presses, and toggles the CapsLock state on three presses. I get credit only for hating the Caps Lock key and being able to copy and paste.

[lilalurl.T32]

Nice work Hotkeyit.
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[HotKeyIt]

[HotKeyIt]

I've written a NumBoard for fun so you can type one handed using numpad

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[HotKeyIt]

RapidHotkey can now be triggered on a combination of hotkeys as well. For example:

[meep.com]

When I copied your code into a script it gave me an error:

[HotKeyIt]

You have to include both functions in your script or include RapidHotkey.ahk and Morse.ahk in your Lib directories or:

[DAT]

Belated thanks to Hotkeyit for an extremely useful script. I've been using it a lot for making double or triple clicks of Shift, LCtrl, RCtrl, CapsLock do useful things like opening and closing various search windows (http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic46083.html)

With the original version I get occasional false activations. It happens when I'm typing fast and happen to press a normal key in between two presses of the special key.

I've solved this by slightly modifying Morse() so that it detects an intervening alien key and aborts the multiple key press. To make it work I have to define all the possible alien keys as hotkeys. I can then use A_ThisHotkey inside the Morse loop to see if the last hotkey is an alien.

To use it all you have to do is call subroutine DefHotkeys near the beginning of your application program and replace Morse in your RapidHotkey function with the modified version here. The modified RapidHotkey works like the unmodified version with main programs that don't run DefHotkeys, but of course you lose the protection against false alarms.

It seems a bit crude to have to make all these 'do-nothing' hotkey assigments but since they don't conflict with any assignments in other scripts, it appears to be only an aesthetic issue. Thanks to Laszlo for the guts of DefHotkeys. References are in the script below.

There's also a test section that demonstrates it working. To use it run the script and try rapidly tapping the Right-Control key once, twice, thrice, etc.

[Laszlo]

If you don't type too fast, that Input misses keystrokes, the following version of Morse also brakes out at foreign keys, but it is simpler than DAT's solution.

[Laszlo]

... e.g. this version works with the Backspace key. (Don't use the BS shorthand!)