How to navigate a GUI with arrows or single letters? Topic is solved

[Wpq]

I decided to build a GUI popup to quickly create an Obsidian note. I expect three possible cases: a daily note (which is created via a single hotkey in Obsidian), a "named note" for which I will provide a title (in the AHK GUI) and open it, and a hotkey to pop up the search menu in Obsidian.

Since I plan to call the GUI via a `Win-N` combination, I would prefer to keep my fingers on the keyboard for the next actions. I was hoping for either or both of

• letters to press to jump to one of the positions
• arrow keys-based movements

Unfortunately, it would seem (https://lexikos.github.io/v2/docs/objects/Gui.htm#Navigate) that only the TAB key is possible?

A GUI window may be navigated via Tab, which moves keyboard focus to the next input-capable control

Is any of the navigations above possible?

[mikeyww]

You can add as many new hotkeys as you like, and assign actions to them. A menu can also be attached to a GUI and can have its own hotkeys.

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Menu, gui, Add, Edit&2, !2
Gui, Font, s10
Gui, Menu, gui
Gui, Add, Edit, vv1 w250
Gui, Add, Edit, vv2 wp
Gui, Add, Edit, vv3 wp
Gui, Show,, Test

#IfWinActive Test ahk_class AutoHotkeyGUI
!1::
!2::
; !3::GuiControl, Focus, % "v" SubStr(A_ThisLabel, 2)
!3::GuiControl, Focus, % StrReplace(A_ThisLabel, "!", "Edit")
#IfWinActive