Hotstring, interfering with hotkey

[SunAndSuch]

Hi.

I have a script with some keyboard remappings (hotkeys) and 1 hotstring in it. That hotstring is doing what is should, but it breaks some of the remappings - specifically the "dead keys". Other remappings still work fine. My script file looks like this:

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<^>!`::Send,{U+00F4} ;ô
<^>!+`::Send,{U+00D4} ;Ô

<^>!/::Send,{U+00FD} ;ý
<^>!+/::Send,{U+00DD} ;Ý

+'::SendInput {U+0022} ;"
'::SendInput {U+0027} ;'
^::SendInput {U+005E} ;^
~::SendInput {U+007E} ;~
`::SendInput {U+0060} ;`

:c:ScC::sugar with coffe and cream

#!Left::
SetWinDelay,0
WinGetPos,x,y,,,A
WinMove,A,,% x-100
return

#!Right::
SetWinDelay,0
WinGetPos,x,y,,,A
WinMove,A,,% x+100
return

When I press " I'll get another " inserted by the system, for instance (which is what the current keyboard layout "United Stated-international" does by default). What could be the reason? Maybe there are better ways of remapping the dead keys?

[mikeyww]

You press one quotation mark, and then see two of them? I was not able to reproduce that by running your script.

[SunAndSuch]

I should probably have specified that I am using the "United States-international" keyboard layout (updated my question now), which has "dead keys". So yes, I press one quotation mark, then a space, or some other letter and another quotation mark appears. I am using these remappings to disable this annoying feature .

[mikeyww]

In testing, it appears to me that the issue is +'. You get AHK's send along with the usual quotation mark and the character that follows it.

If you cannot use the regular US keyboard, the following worked in my test.

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$"::Send ""`b

This sends the quotation mark, followed by another quotation mark as shown. This seems to cancel what is happening with the international keyboard's handling. The final `b then just erases the second mark.

[SunAndSuch]

Thanks for the suggestion mikeyww. I have tried it out and it behaves as you are describing it. That means I still have to type something after the ' for it to appear, while I'd like it to act exactly like the regular US keyboard without dead keys.
Speaking of which, I guess I could use the regular keyboard, but the international one already has so many useful characters in it (which can also be used when AHK is not running). Often I find myself typing in several different languages, even combining them in one sentence.
But maybe it's worth remapping a whole bunch of keys in the 'non-international' keyboard.

[mikeyww]

I might be misunderstanding what you need, but you can work with ' the same way.

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$"::Send ""`b
$'::Send ''`b

[SunAndSuch]

Oh, of course. I mistook ' for a " under testing. It works as it should when I press the correct key .
I've experimented a bit more and landed on just adding the dollar sign in front of my original hotkeys (and replacing the +':: with $"::):

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$"::SendInput {U+0022} ;"
$'::SendInput {U+0027} ;'
$^::SendInput {U+005E} ;^
$~::SendInput {U+007E} ;~
$`::SendInput {U+0060} ;`

So now it works fine, although I'm still not sure why adding a hotstring would disrupt the original hotkey-code. Anyway, thanks again for pointing me the right direction .

[mikeyww]

$ activates the keyboard hook. Without the hook, if the subroutine sends the hotkey itself, it triggers a loop instead of sending the key as expected.

[SunAndSuch]

Right, well, still, the original code was working (for years) until I added the hotstring.

[mikeyww]

A fair point!