How to set same shortcut (^q) to send one command when single pressing, and another when holding ^ and pressing q twice? Topic is solved

[cadudesun]

Hi,

I'd appreciate help.

How to set the same shortcut ^q to send one command when single pressing, and another when holding ^ and pressing q twice?

Thank you very much!

[flyingDman]

search for Morse()

[Ridwan]

Try this.
If you press Ctrl + Q twice within 300 milliseconds, the MsgBox will show different text.
But if you need the single press mode, than you will need to press Ctrl + Q, release it, and wait for 300 milliseconds.

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#MaxThreadsPerHotkey, 2

KeyPress := 0, running := False

^q::
    KeyPress++

    If (running = True) {
        Return
    }

    running := True

    While (A_TimeSinceThisHotkey < 300) {
        If (KeyPress > 1) {
            MsgBox, Two times

            KeyPress := 0, running := False
            Return
        }
    }

    MsgBox, One time

    KeyPress := 0, running := False
Return

[cadudesun]

Many thanks you all for the replies.
I'm going to explore Morse(), and Ridwan's script also works perfectly, fitting all I needed!

I further question if I may. Regarding the heading of the script:

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#MaxThreadsPerHotkey, 2
KeyPress := 0, running := False

Since I'm going to use this script to run several commands stored within a single .ahk file, should I repeat that heading for each individual script within the file, or could I insert the heading once, just in the beginning of the script?

Thank you very much!

[Ridwan]

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#MaxThreadsPerHotkey, 2

Just need to declared once for each file.

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KeyPress := 0, running := False

also need to declared once at the beginning, but one for each Hotkey. If you need more, like Ctrl + K than you will need to add different variable, for example:

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KeyPress_K := 0, running_K := False

and repeat it after each key press (single or twice) to reset it.

[cadudesun]

Thank you very much for the script and the teaching @Ridwan !

[Ridwan]

Helping each others.