Function keys secondary function key name in AHK ?

[DrMaximum]

Hi,

So on my keyboard, pressing the F1, F2, ... keys will default to the secondary functions like brightness, volume, ...

Now I want to remap the F3 key's secondary function, which is 'Task View' on my board, to something else

But what is the name of 'Task View' button in AHK ? Just F3 like below dosn't work for me, then I'll have to actually also press the 'FN' key, no bueno

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F3::    
Send, Something Else
return

I need something like this :

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TaskView::      ; something like this, however this dosn't work unfortunately, incorrect script won't even start
Send, Something Else
return

Anyone got any idea ? Can't seem to find a list of this anywhere

Thanks for any help

[Ianizer]

Run the script below, press the Task View key once it's running, then press F5 and you should see the name of the key inside the window that appeared.

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KeyHistory
Escape::ExitApp

[DrMaximum]

It doesn't show anything that way, but if I try to run a Keyboardhook I do get a reading '5B' and '15B'

So I tried both

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VK5B::
Send, Something Else
return

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SC15B::
Send, Something Else
return

then the button press works, but I get some strange behaviour;
it only prints 'Somethin E' and then immediately logs me out... (same for both)

very weird, so close though

[Ianizer]

Very strange. This might work (I can't test it because I don't have the key on my keyboard):

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SC15B::
Send, Something Else
return
SC15B Up::return ;maybe releasing the key messes it up, so make it do nothing at all when released. if this doesn't work, i'm out of ideas

[DrMaximum]

Strange the exact same thing still. The way it only prints 'Somethin E' ... so weird

Going the other route at the moment, set the keyboard to where function Keys are normal, as in F1 is F1,..( no 'FN' modifier needed )

And then use AHK to bind brightness, volume, media,... to the normal F1, F2, ...function keys.

Except for F3 (which used to be task view) and remap it F3 to F2 (for easy rename filename in Win, which was my intent

Then map LWIN key + F1,... to just F1 and all the way to F12, so that can still use F1, F2, ...


Almost got it to work, only change brightness script won't work with the other scripts combined for now

it'll get there, tomorrow