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[montiaro]

what was the command for autohotkey to simulate someone actually pressing down the button? not the Send, function

[purloinedheart]

http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/Send.htm

[montiaro]

like this?
SendInput, {Raw} {SPACE}

[engunneer]

AHK can only generate artificial input.
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[montiaro]

someone made a code awhile back that was able to use hotkeys in games, so lets say i want space to actually press enter, are there any other ways of typing remapping hotkeys?

[montiaro]

bump

[AnttiV]

Sorry about the wording, but I just HAD to

There is no other, there is only SEND.

In short, as engunneer said, AHK can only send artificial keystrokes, using Send. Either

[montiaro]

let me try to find the one someone else made and ill post it

[jaco0646]

[montiaro]

i dont want to mess with the registery, so your saying autohotkey is not capable of sending commands to a directX game?

[AnttiV]

Yes it is, I use it regularly.

EDIT: Even DX10 games work. But as I said, you need to experiment with SendMode and/or SetKeyDelay to see which settings work with your game.

EDIT2: Example, with H.A.W.X, I need to use SetKeyDelay, 50, 50 (ANY other values and it doesn't work, I don't know how, but that's how it goes.) Also I need to be sure SendMode is NOT set to Input or Play, else it won't work with HAWX. LFS is not that picky, it accepts almost whatever I throw at it. and so on.

[montiaro]

so how would u get those SetKeyDelay numbers? is it just a guessing game? and same about the SendMode how do i know which one? i am playing aion just to let u know, the skill bar hotkeys are annoying i was jus ttrying to move it down a few rows to z-m keys

[AnttiV]

More than likely, it's all trial and error. SetMode isn't so bad 'cause there aren't that many choices, but experimenting with SetKeyDelay takes time. I tried multiple settings and didn't get my game to work, then I needed to tinker with the setting for another reason and suddenly I had found settings that also worked with my game.

SetKeyDelay sets the time between keypresses and the time the key stays pressed, If the game doesn't register any keystrokes, I think the first thing one should do, is lengthen the delay and the press time.

I'm sorry I can't be more helpful, but I really don't know any other ways.

You could probably make a hotkey/loop logic to automatically go through multiple setkeydelay settings and each time try if the key works.

[montiaro]

i will try that and get back to u

[AnttiV]

Just curious, what game are we talking about?