Dynamic Hotkeys Topic is solved

[TheArkive]

I have a larger script that replicates the same behavior as this smaller example:

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var := "notepad++.exe"
hwnd := WinActive("ahk_exe " var)
HotIfWinActive "ahk_id " hwnd
Hotkey "^Space", "testCB"
HotIf

g := Gui.New("+AlwaysOnTop")
g.Add("Button","vBtn1","Test").OnEvent("click","gui_click")
g.Add("Button","vBtn2","Reset").OnEvent("click","gui_click")
g.Show("w200")

gui_click(ctl,info) {
	If (ctl.Name = "Btn1") {
		WinActivate "ahk_exe firefox.exe"
		HotIfWinActive "ahk_exe firefox.exe"
		Hotkey "^+Space", "testCB"
		HotIf
	} Else If (ctl.Name = "Btn2") {
		HotIfWinActive "ahk_exe firefox.exe"
		Hotkey "^+Space", "Off" ; shutting of hotkey is context sensitive?
		HotIf
	}
}


testCB(thisKey) {
	msgbox "hotkey: " thisKey
}

Basically, I can set the hotkey ^+Space with the Test button, and it only works in Firefox as expected, and I can clear/disable the hotkey with the Reset button. But when I try to set the hotkey again, it doesn't work. Just wondering what I'm missing.

Another thing that confused me is that the a112 help docs for HotIfWin... states:

... In other words, Hotkey A_ThisHotkey, "Off" turns off the current hotkey even if it is context-sensitive.

As far as I can tell that's what I'm trying to do with Hotkey "^+Space", "Off", but it doesn't seem to work unless I add HotIfWinActive ... in the line above.

Also, if I try to use HotIfWinExist, then it seems to set the hotkey as global, instead of being context sensitive with the specified window.

I'm just trying to wrap my brain around how this is meant to work. Basically I'm trying to set hotkeys dynamically so they can be user defined. In my larger script, it works on startup, but subsequent uses doesn't work at all.

[swagfag]

Hotkey "^+Space", "testCB" sets a hotkey's function to the supplied parameter(and creates the hotkey if it didnt exist already)
uve switched the hotkey Off, the second time u run this function all it does is change the hotkey's subroutine to what it already was. the hotkey remains Off. u need Hotkey "^+Space", "testCB", "On"

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Hotkey A_ThisHotkey, "Off" has to be invoked by the hotkey's function for it to be able to modify the hotkey without having to specify the context

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if I try to use HotIfWinExist, then it seems to set the hotkey as global, instead of being context sensitive with the specified window.

i doubt that

[TheArkive]

@swagfag
Thanks, I thought "Off" actually "unregistered" the hotkey. I had my wires crossed on that one. Now I get it. So, if a user changes hotkey settings in a GUI meant to modify how the script operates, the old hotkeys need to be set to "Off" and just ignored?

[swagfag]

u can switch them off, u can govern their activation via a context sensitivity flag, u can substitute their subroutines with ones that dont do anything.
plenty of ways to go about it, its up to u

[TheArkive]

Thanks man. That makes sense.