Key is case sensitive in some cases Topic is solved

[MortenZdk]

For some reason, the "A" hotkey used below is case sensitive, and an "Error: Duplicate hotkey" is reported for "<^>!+A::Media_Play_Pause" if the below is used:

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; Use of upper-case "A" hotkey gives error when loading
<^>!A::Media_Next
<^>!+A::Media_Play_Pause

; This works fine when using lower-case "b" hotkey
<^>!b::Media_Next
<^>!+b::Media_Play_Pause

; Upper-case hotkey can be used here, thus when not using Media_Next and Media_Play_Pause
<^>!C::MsgBox Lower-case P
<^>!+C::MsgBox Upper-case P

The other lines are OK, so looks like the case sensitive key is tied to use of Media_Next and Media_Play_Pause.

I have not seen case sensitive hotkey before, so this looks like a bug.

[TheDewd]

It's not the use of the "A" that is causing the error... It's the command you're trying to bind to that hotkey.

Try this:

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<^>!A::Send, {Media_Next}
<^>!+A::Send, {Media_Play_Pause}

[MortenZdk]

Thanks, using "Send, {Media_Next}" and "Send, {Media_Play_Pause}" makes it work with upper-case hotkey... though pretty weird that it almost worked before also

I would like to accept your answer, but I could not find a button to do that.

[lexikos]

"It's the command you're trying to bind to that hotkey" fails to make the important distinction: <^>!A::Media_Next is not a hotkey, but a remapping (the defining point is that it has a key name to the right of ::). A remapping is effectively a macro which is replaced with two hotkeys (of the form described in the documentation). The issue is that hotkeys ignore case, while remapping treats A is +a. In this case, the two remappings would create hotkeys *+<^>!A, *+<^>!A up, *+<^>!+A and *+<^>!+A up, where the redundant + is ignored.