I want to make a hotkey that only exists while another key is pressed. Ordinarily, just using modifiers would work but i need to intercept specific keys while one is down so that the keys work in normal use. How do i do that?
1 Answer
~l & b::Send R
Sends R when l and b is pressed (though you'd probably want to add a {backspace} to remove the l, if you wanted such a thing for some reason)
It's the ~ that tells AHK "Don't overwrite whatever this does at the moment" that's important.
edit: GetKeyState:
r::
if getkeystate("q")
{
Send, Q and R Party YEAH!
}
else
send r
return
would fire off a lovely string if r and q are pressed. The upshot of this is you can have as many ifs as you like :)
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Here's the problem: I'm trying to emulate the behavior of win+tab (keep down windows key so that the filp3d view doesn't go away), so that i can ctrl+scroll to wintab.– RCIXCommented Sep 5, 2009 at 2:28
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right, well the function getkeystate("key") can be used to give hotkeys conditional meanings, I'll edit the post so I have codetags– PhoshiCommented Sep 5, 2009 at 11:10