SDeGonge Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 I'm a little confused about accelerators. If I have an application running such as notepad, and I want to assign a hotkey that will only be active when focus is on notepad, can I use accelerators to do this? All examples that I have show how to do this with an AutoIt generated window but not with an external program as the handle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Melba23 Posted January 24, 2022 Moderators Share Posted January 24, 2022 SDeGonge, Welcome to the AutoIt forums. To the best of my knowledge, Accelerator keys can only be set for an AutoIt-created GUI. M23 Any of my own code posted anywhere on the forum is available for use by others without any restriction of any kind Open spoiler to see my UDFs: Spoiler ArrayMultiColSort ---- Sort arrays on multiple columnsChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listingDate_Time_Convert -- Easily convert date/time formats, including the language usedExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBoxGUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUIGUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable framesGUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView itemsGUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeViewMarquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIsNoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxesNotify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the displayScrollbars ----------Automatically sized scrollbars with a single commandStringSize ---------- Automatically size controls to fit textToast -------------- Small GUIs which pop out of the notification area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nine Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Try this instead : #include <WinAPIConv.au3> #include <WinAPISys.au3> #include <WindowsConstants.au3> Run("Notepad.exe") OnAutoItExitRegister(OnAutoItExit) Global $hWnd = GUICreate("") GUIRegisterMsg($WM_HOTKEY, WM_HOTKEY) _WinAPI_RegisterHotKey($hWnd, 0x0144, 0, 0x44) ; d _WinAPI_RegisterHotKey($hWnd, 0x011B, 0, 0x1B) ; ESC While Sleep(500) WEnd Func WM_HOTKEY($hWnd, $iMsg, $wParam, $lParam) Switch _WinAPI_HiWord($lParam) Case 0x44 If WinActive("[CLASS:Notepad]") Then ConsoleWrite("D was pressed" & @CRLF) Else ConsoleWrite("sending d" & @CRLF) ControlSend("[ACTIVE]", "", "", "d") EndIf Case 0x1B Exit EndSwitch EndFunc ;==>WM_HOTKEY Func OnAutoItExit() _WinAPI_UnregisterHotKey($hWnd, 0x0144) _WinAPI_UnregisterHotKey($hWnd, 0x011B) EndFunc ;==>OnAutoItExit Exit 1 “They did not know it was impossible, so they did it” ― Mark Twain Spoiler Block all input without UAC Save/Retrieve Images to/from Text Monitor Management (VCP commands) Tool to search in text (au3) files Date Range Picker Virtual Desktop Manager Sudoku Game 2020 Overlapped Named Pipe IPC HotString 2.0 - Hot keys with string x64 Bitwise Operations Multi-keyboards HotKeySet Recursive Array Display Fast and simple WCD IPC Multiple Folders Selector Printer Manager GIF Animation (cached) Screen Scraping Multi-Threading Made Easy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDeGonge Posted January 24, 2022 Author Share Posted January 24, 2022 1 hour ago, Nine said: Try this instead : #include <WinAPIConv.au3> #include <WinAPISys.au3> #include <WindowsConstants.au3> Run("Notepad.exe") OnAutoItExitRegister(OnAutoItExit) Global $hWnd = GUICreate("") GUIRegisterMsg($WM_HOTKEY, WM_HOTKEY) _WinAPI_RegisterHotKey($hWnd, 0x0144, 0, 0x44) ; d _WinAPI_RegisterHotKey($hWnd, 0x011B, 0, 0x1B) ; ESC While Sleep(500) WEnd Func WM_HOTKEY($hWnd, $iMsg, $wParam, $lParam) Switch _WinAPI_HiWord($lParam) Case 0x44 If WinActive("[CLASS:Notepad]") Then ConsoleWrite("D was pressed" & @CRLF) Else ConsoleWrite("sending d" & @CRLF) ControlSend("[ACTIVE]", "", "", "d") EndIf Case 0x1B Exit EndSwitch EndFunc ;==>WM_HOTKEY Func OnAutoItExit() _WinAPI_UnregisterHotKey($hWnd, 0x0144) _WinAPI_UnregisterHotKey($hWnd, 0x011B) EndFunc ;==>OnAutoItExit Interesting approach. I'll give it a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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