Sending three keys at once with Send()

[square65]

I'm trying to have a script hit: alt + shift + k

This is what I have and it isn't working

HotKeySet("!q", toTableOfContents)
HotKeySet("!w", toSelectedTab)
 
func toTableOfContents()
   Send("!+k")
EndFunc
 
func toSelectedTab()
   MouseMove(2690, 300, 0)
EndFunc
 
while 1
   sleep(100)
wend

 

I literally had to delete the code block and retype it in autoit tags before I was able to type after it. And this time it did not delete the content. So not only is the forum buggy, it's inconsistently buggy which is far far worse.

Edited March 27, 2015 by square65

[square65]

Also, I should mention that at the end of my Autoit embedding in that post, where I'd put [/autoit], I typed more and it was removed and isn't even visible when I try to edit the post.

So that is a very annoying bug with this forum.

Also, attempting to edit it won't even let me exit the code block. No matter what I do, hitting end, anything only extends the code block.

I don't remember this being the case before when I was battling with moderators to get answers to my questions, so something has changed.

Edited March 27, 2015 by square65

[guinness]

Out of curiosity what are you trying to automate? Word?

[square65]

Google spreadsheets. I have to bypass some of google's ridiculous limitations that basically force me to execute Google script via clicking an image. So I'm making an autoit macro that does that.

Then another function in the autoit macro that hits alt + shift + k, then home, then enter, to go to the root tab.

Aka the table of contents tab I'm making.

I have like 50 trillion tabs I use so I just have a chrome window on left half of 3rd monitor with 10 tabs open, each with a spreadsheet, each with 10^10^10 tabs within them.

This will be a better solution because ctrl+f, type till match, the hit escape then cell is selected, then I run autoit that will click image that runs my script that goes to the tab whose name matches the contents of the active cell.

Ghetto? Definitely.

Basically forced if I want full keyboard power user status? Basically.

Edited March 27, 2015 by square65

[guinness]

Your code works in that the key combination is correct and the HotKeySet() too. Perhaps you need to bring the window into focus and check the mouse position co-ordinates.

[square65]

No window was in focus and HotKeySet was done correctly the way I was doing it the first time.

I had to do this:

func toTableOfContents()
   Send("{SHIFTDOWN}")
   Send("{ALTDOWN}")
   Send("k")
   Send("{SHIFTUP}")
   Send("{ALTUP}")
   Send("{HOME}")
   Send("{ENTER}")
EndFunc

[square65]

Again text typed after the [/autoit] was not submitted.

The text in question was "works now"