How to force trigger an hotkey with $ or #Usehook (thats in a different ahk file) Topic is solved

[NorInd]

For example,

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; in file AA
^r::
SendInput, ^i
return

; in file BB (another lib)
$^i::
ToolTip, % "AAA"
return

^r will not be able to trigger ^i in this case.

What if I do want to force trigger ^i with ^r?
When Im not able to modify file BB

• (say, file BB is from another person's lib.
  I know this way of calling to another's lib/API is not good, but I just need it to work.)

Is this possible?

[mikeyww]

Gosub can call any labeled subroutine. Example

[NorInd]

Gosub can call any labeled subroutine. Example

Yeah, I did saw that in AHK documentation

One workaround is to use Gosub to jump directly to the hotkey's subroutine. For example: Gosub #LButton.

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But the problem is, ^i is in a different .ahk file BB.
I dont think ^r in file AA can gosub to another file BB?

eg::

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; in file AA
^r:: gosub, $^i
; ==> Target label does not exist.

;  in file BB 
$^i:: ToolTip, AAA

[mikeyww]

You can #Include the other file. That makes your script act as if the other script is contained within it.

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^r::Gosub, $^i
#Include %A_ScriptDir%\bb.ahk

[NorInd]

You can #Include the other file. That makes your script act as if the other script is contained within it.

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^r::Gosub, $^i
#Include %A_ScriptDir%\bb.ahk

Thats true... But I dont really want to do that... It introduces entangle between the files.
I rather that BB.ahk is running independent of AA.ahk...

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behind motivation

TBH, the behind motivation of this post is actually:

I have another App, written in ahk, called `lintalist`.
It can be assigned with an hotkey, say ^i, to do a paste of some text.
But I was not able to trigger that hotkey ^i with ^r in AA.ahk written by me.
So, I suspect that ^i is implemented by using $^i.

(But anyways.. Just take that as an example, and fall back to the topic of this post.)

[mikeyww]

You can send a message from one script to another. OnMessage

Also:

SendLevel:

SendLevel allows to trigger hotkeys and hotstrings of another script, which normally would not be the case.

[NorInd]

SendLevel is the solution! Thanks for the reply.

Following code works::

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; in file AA
r:: 
SendLevel, 1 ; 1 is normally sufficient, as #InputLevel defaults to 0
SendInput, ^i
return

; in file BB
$^i:: ToolTip, AAA