Shift key stuck after firing hotstring

[omareg94]

I have a hotstring defined as following:

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:*SEK10:cdyy<:: ; (c)urrent (d)a(y) (format 2)
  FormatTime, CurrentDateTime, Default, dddd, dd-MMM-yyyy
  Clipboard := "⋮ " CurrentDateTime
  ClipWait
  SendEvent % "^v" ; paste content
return

On Windows 11, many times, when I type `cdyy<` hotstring on any window (more often on notepad), it stucks shift key pressed.
And when I type any letter, it gets written as Upper case unintentionally, until I press & release shift key again, it gets fixed. But it's annoying to have it some times when I fire the hotstring.

This video shows how it behaves on a notepad window:
https://youtu.be/58lJxQE9iLw
Many times the hotstring keeps Shift key pressed & doesn't get fixed until I press & release Shift key again.

Other Notes:
- Reason why I'm using SendEvent is here..
- This issue happens also on other editors like VS Code or a text input in a browser.

[boiler]

It is a known issue that Notepad in Windows 11 has broken many (most?) AHK scripts. A search of the forum should turn up several threads on the topic, although I haven’t seen a resolution other than to use a different text editor.

[omareg94]

@boiler
This issue happens also on other editors like VS Code or a text input in a browser.

[omareg94]

Anyone has any justification / solution?

[mikeyww]

Your script has some bugs. To use the clipboard in this way, you would not need to change or set the Send mode for the hotstring itself, because the hotstring is not using auto-replace text. Sending Ctrl+V can be done normally. I believe that simply assigning the clipboard to a hard-coded string will not require a ClipWait, but if you did use ClipWait, you would clear the clipboard first, and then check the ErrorLevel to see whether an error occurred. Example. See the documentation for FormatTime.

FormatTime, OutputVar [, YYYYMMDDHH24MISS, Format]

YYYYMMDDHH24MISS: Leave this parameter blank to use the current local date and time. Otherwise, specify all or the leading part of a timestamp in the YYYYMMDDHH24MISS format.

The following worked here. Test in Notepad, with no other code in the script, and no other scripts running.

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#Requires AutoHotkey v1.1.33

::cc::
FormatTime ts,, dddd, dd-MMM-yyyy
Clipboard := "Date: " ts
Send ^v
Return