Windows Hot Keys with AutoHotKey

re: Windows Hot Keys with AutoHotKey

someone — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:13:42 GMT

It's time MS built baked something like Automator (OS X) into Windows 7.

re: Windows Hot Keys with AutoHotKey

someone else — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:26:19 GMT

I like this one a lot: http://glob.com.au/hotkey/ .

I did not try AutoHotKey but it doesn't seem to have a UI. Anyway, GlobHotKey does and since I don't change my hotkeys too often it's the best solution for me.

(But it does not override default hotkeys as far as I know. )

re: Windows Hot Keys with AutoHotKey

rus.newman — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:27:05 GMT

I use one of those fancy Microsoft keyboards with the "Favorites" buttons 1-5 across the top. I don't think I'm quite so glued to my keyboard as Noah is, but I had a nifty idea for the favourites keys.

I'm wondering how to write a program that will let me do combinations of these keys. For instance, I could press favourite key #3, which would bring up a menu of my remote desktops (1-5) and then I select one to launch with the same keys.

The problem is that these keys seem to be tightly bound to IntelliType and I've found very little on the net about how to use them in a program. I've been programming for a while, and have just started C#. If anyone can point me in the direction of anything useful, I'd be really grateful!

Thanks.

re: Windows Hot Keys with AutoHotKey

noahc — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:42:54 GMT

Hey rus.newman, All keyboard buttons send a key scan code to the OS, even the 'special' buttons. Then the 'special software' (IntelliType) listens for those scan codes and launches apps, like AutoHotKey does. So if you disable the specialized app, you can use AutoHotKey to bind to those special keys and create hot key chords or combinations. Search the AutoHotKey help file for 'scan code' and 'combinations'.

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re: Windows Hot Keys with AutoHotKey

rus.newman — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:42:15 GMT

Thanks, Noah! I'll give that a go and post back when I make some progress on the project. My initial messing-around indicates that this isn't going to be easy at all - the keys 1-5 certainly aren't standard, so the keyboard hook will be involved!

re: Windows Hot Keys with AutoHotKey

Rick — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:04:20 GMT

I manually type in the current date into notes I make in Salesforce which is a web based database. I probably type in the date 10.8 10/8 or something like that 100 times a day. Any chance of creating a hotkey the automatically populates today's date into a text field. I would assume this would be some of kind script that would have to be written to work in all Microsoft programs? Any advice or guideance would be huge. Thanks.

re: Windows Hot Keys with AutoHotKey

Little Me — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:40:18 GMT

I've been using autohotkey but i like the syntax of AutoIt better (AutoHotKey was made from AutoIt so they are still very much alike)

Both of those scripting languages are awesome the one you choose are personal preference

re: Windows Hot Keys with AutoHotKey

Frankcw — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:16:40 GMT

There is a mistake in your HotKeys file.

The line: Run "%tools%\QRes.exe" /x:800 /x:600 /c:32

should be Run "%tools%\QRes.exe" /x:800 /y:600 /c:32

There is an x that should be a y other than that it works fine.