Multiple Keyboards - HotKeySet - UDF

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This is based on this topic.  With this UDF, you can define all the HotKeySet you want on any of the keyboards.  The keys registered as HotKeySet are not sent to the active window.  I also created a "Event-driven" mode for lengthy procedure.  There is still the immediate action mode for short procedure. 

Note that in Event-driven mode, you will need to create an close loop to intercept the HotKey events.  Events are asynchronous.   In Event-driven mode only one procedure can be running at a given time.  But immediate action procedure can interrupt a Event-driven procedure.   All procedures are declared as actual function (without quotes).

It is important that lengthy procedure should be declared as Event-driven, otherwise the system may become unstable. 

Here an example.  As usual if you have any suggestion, I would be very interested to hear them.

#include "MKHKS-UDF.au3"

Example()

Func Example()
  HotKeySet("{ESC}", _Exit)
  _MKHKS_Initialize ()
  _MKHKS_Register_HotKey("+g", _Long, 1, True)    ; declared on kb 1 as event-driven
  _MKHKS_Register_HotKey("^h", _Short, 0, False)  ; declared on kb 0 as immediate action
  While True
    Sleep(50)
    _MKHKS_WaitForEvent()
  WEnd
EndFunc

Func _Exit()
  Exit
EndFunc   ;==>_Exit

Func _Long()
  ConsoleWrite ("Key Pressed _Long" & @CRLF)
  For $i = 1 to 2000
    Sleep(10)
  Next
  ConsoleWrite ("Long terminated" & @CRLF)
EndFunc

Func _Short()
  ConsoleWrite ("Key Pressed _Short" & @CRLF)
EndFunc

 

MKHKS-UDF.au3