Really new to this, need help with macro

[mcclarya]

I am wondering if what I have in mind it possible. I was wanting to use the FN key+volume up/down on my keyboard to change the song. Are 2+ button macros possible and how. Any help would be greatly appreciated so that I don't have to tab out of screens to change the song all the time.

[Exaskryz]

Fn key is difficult to use, because often not even Windows can see it, only the system BIOS. See https://autohotkey.com/docs/KeyList.htm#SpecialKeys

See https://autohotkey.com/docs/Hotkeys.htm#combo for how to do a custom combination of keys. You may be interested in doing just Ctrl+Volume Up/down, which can be accomplished with the pre-constructed modifier for Ctrl (^): ^Volume_Up::MsgBox Hello.

[Exaskryz]

Ooh, I noticed that the Ctrl+Volume_Up hotkey ^Volume_Up:: does *not* work on my system as is. When I press the Ctrl key, it defaults to using the normal F1-F12 key functions. Take my keyboard as an example. F5 refreshes webpages, but I need to press Fn+F5 to get the F5 behavior. Otherwise, it does the "bonus" behavior which is turning on my keyboard backlight. But if I press Ctrl+F5, I get Ctrl+F5 effect of a hard-refresh of the webpage; I do not have to press Ctrl+Fn+F5.

Same thing just happened here. My Volume_Up key is shared by the F8 key; if I press Ctrl+F8, I am doing Ctrl+F8, not Ctrl+Volume_Up.

So, maybe what you need to do Fn+Volume_Up/Down is just remap to the F7/F8 keys. Otherwise, if there are no shared keys on that key, you should be able to use Ctrl+Volume_Up/Down just fine.