Bug that was driving me insane for a week was actually a bug with AHK itself

[NovaChromatic]

So back in August last year, I was driving myself insane for a week trying to fix a bug. I planned on asking for help here, even drafted a long-ass explanation with a crap-ton of comments, but never got around to posting it.

Jump to now where I'm revisiting the code and it's actually working – no more bug? Then I come to find out it was actually a bug with AHK itself that was fixed in v2.0.7, less than a month after I initially encountered the bug.

I feel both validated and annoyed that I never posted it, lol.

Here's an example of the bug (easy to see the simplified version in hindsight):

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0:: Shift
; You should be able to trigger the below hotkey by pressing 0 & 1,
; but in v2.0.6 and below, you can't.
$+1:: MsgBox()

The specific fix found in the v2.0.7 notes is "Fixed hook hotkeys not recognizing modifiers which are pressed down by SendInput."

Really just posting this for catharsis.

[Chunjee]

Oof that's painful


Lucky that got fixed in the end

[flyingDman]

That "0 & 1" script works but it disables the 0 key.
I am always surprised when people are attempting to make odd key combinations work. There are literally hundreds of viable keyboard combinations available using the "normal" modifiers. Why complicate your life?

[RussF]

That "0 & 1" script works but it disables the 0 key.
I am always surprised when people are attempting to make odd key combinations work. There are literally hundreds of viable keyboard combinations available using the "normal" modifiers. Why complicate your life?

+1

Then there's,"I want my shift key to do 'this' on a short press, 'that' on a medium press, 'the other thing' on a long press, but I want it to do 'something else' on a double-press and 'one more thing' on a triple-press. Please write the script for me."

Russ

[NovaChromatic]

That "0 & 1" script works but it disables the 0 key.

The code I gave was an abstraction, but the goal was to remap a non-modifier key to a modifier. To be specific, I wanted to map CapsLock+S to Shift. But yes, I've realized since then that using the native modifiers is simpler to code and simpler for the brain to remember.