Remapping ° (degree symbol). Key is disabled?

[yasqueenslay]

Initially I tried

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°::!d

(alt+d combination), but I get this error:


In key history, the last three lines show up when I press the ° key. So on down stroke it's the weird S symbol and up stroke two °s? I don't get it.


Tried:

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SC00B0::!d

Nothing happens. Then tried

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SC029::!d

And it only works after pressing ° twice. What gives?

Also tried running SharpKeys (says ° is disabled) and the ahk script doesn't detect the keynames either.


What gives? Any insight? How can one key by default be something on the downstroke and something else in upstroke?

How come pressing ° twice works with SC029::!d? Shouldn't it just be when pressed down once?

Thanks!

[mikeyww]

I do not have a way to test, but would close all other scripts and test just a short one with a MsgBox.

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#Requires AutoHotkey v1.1.33
; #Requires AutoHotkey v2.0
SC0B0::MsgBox 123
SC029::MsgBox 456

[yasqueenslay]

I do not have a way to test, but would close all other scripts and test just a short one with a MsgBox.

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#Requires AutoHotkey v1.1.33
; #Requires AutoHotkey v2.0
SC0B0::MsgBox 123
SC029::MsgBox 456

It was the latter (456). As it turns out

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SC029::!d

works fine with most browsers, except for Chrome (which is where I was testing to begin with in order to highlight the URL field).

Maybe there's a conflicting keyboard shortcut there? Pressing Alt+d works fine in Chrome, shouldn't SC029::!d have the same effect? Only works when I press ° twice (down up the key and activates on the second down -even before lifting the finger from the key-).

Edit: using the following fixes the issue (I don't really understand why)

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SC029::Send, !d

[mikeyww]

Due to use of blind mode, one doesn't typically send a modifier key in a remap, though it can be done. Blind mode alters how modifiers are restored.

Offhand, I don't know how a remap handles a two-key sequence (modified key), but the KeyHistory would show it.