Adding items to context menu

[HMPrintDesign]

Hello
I've spent a few hours looking but I'm getting lost.

What I am trying to do is just add non-clickable (label only) to the context menu. I want to list some of my AHK shortcodes here because I keep forgetting what the keyboard command are.. LOL

Everything I found seemed far too complicated for what I need.



I appreciate you!,
Stephen and Wayne Hesler-Mondore
HM Design
hmprintdesign.com

[RussF]

If you have just one script that you run that has all your hotkeys and hotstrings in it, you could just add another one on an unused hotkey such as Ctrl-Alt-h for "help" that just displays a tooltip wherever your cursor is.

Russ

[HMPrintDesign]

Thankyou for that,

but I'm looking for is just a menu to list keys. SO what I really want is, when I right click this list is added to the context menu no matter where I am on the monitor.

{RIGHT CLICK}
Windows standard context menu appears
____________________________
My custom menu [no links needed, just test]

Screenshot 2021-12-08 090357.png (13.53 KiB) Viewed 2376 times

see attached image. I want everything from Explorer down to just be a text list as shown.



I appreciate you!,
Stephen and Wayne Hesler-Mondore
HM Design
hmprintdesign.com

[mikeyww]

RussF idea makes sense because programs can have their own context menus.

[RussF]

If you have a mouse with a left-right wheel (which most people either don't know about or don't use) you could attach the tooltip like so...

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MyKeyList =
(
F-Explorer
C-Calc
X-Fax
WCNY
...
)
IsToolTip := False

WheelRight::
    IsToolTip := !IsToolTip
    If (IsToolTip) {
        ToolTip, %MyKeyList%
    } Else {
        ToolTip
    }
Return

You could, of cours, use WheelLeft or if you don't use your wheel button, MButton.

It is a toggle, so activate it to display the tooltip, then again to remove it.

Russ

[HMPrintDesign]

Awesome.. but it doesn't work.

I modified as such to use a CTRL shirt left mouse click

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;Add Context Menu
MyKeyList =
(
F-Explorer
C-Calc
X-Fax
WCNY
)
IsToolTip := False

^+LButton::
    IsToolTip := !IsToolTip
    If (IsToolTip) {
        ToolTip, %MyKeyList%
    } Else {
        ToolTip
    }
Return

[Mod edit: [code][/code] tags added.]

Nothing happens

[RussF]

I copied your code exactly and it worked perfectly. Did you try the script all by itself, with no other scripts running?

If you are adding it to an existing script, you need to place the top half (everything before the "^+LButton" line at the very top of the script where it will get executed before any hotkey definitions. The rest can go anywhere.

Russ

[HMPrintDesign]

THANK YOU THANK YOU

That worked moving that snippet to the top.