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[ahk_man]

; beginning of script

i & F3::
SetKeyDelay,55
Send,abc
Return

; end of script


The above script prevent my " i " key on my keyboard from not working. For example, pressing the " i " key on the keyboard doesn't generate a letter " i ". I assume the above script took control of the " i " key. Please help me trouble shoot the script. I need to create a hotkey that will use the letter " i " and the function key F3 together. Note, the letter " i " must be before F3. However, but if you could get my shift key on my mouse to work that would be preferable. For example, I have a microsoft mouse that I assign the fourth button as a Shift key. However, I noticed the shift key from the mouse and the keyboard do not behave in the same way. How can I get the shift key on the mouse to behave like the shift key on the keyboard?

[Rajat]

use this

~i & F3::
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[ahk_man]

Rajat,
Thanks for your replay; however, I knew about the tilda infront of the hotkey label. Although that corrected the " i " key from being lost, however, I do not want to key in a " i " everytime I click on the hotkey. I want to be able to use it whenever I want. In other words by using the above, the output is like this:


~i & F3::
Send, abc


Output: iabc



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I want the output to be abc only.

[Chris]

There is only one other way to do it, but this will cause the i key to take effect only when it is released:

i & F3::
SetKeyDelay,55
Send,abc
Return

$i::Send, i ; This is the critical line.

[ahk_man]

Aye Chris,
Thanks a lot. You're extremely helpful!