F1 and F2 scan code using SciTE for AutoIt

[Mbee]

I've been trying bluetooth keyboard after bluetooth keyboard after bluetooth keyboard, but all of them produce unwanted effects (which don't occur with wired keyboards): Many, if not all, function keys do profoundly irritating things! For example, with a wired keyboard, if I highlight a keyword or known function name in the editor and press F1, the help file opens and displays all the relevant documentation for the highlighted item. Hooray!

But with all six bluetooth keyboards I've tried in the last few weeks, "F1" opens a very large and infinitely annoying popup which shows me a set of apps (Edge, Notepad, etc) that it stupidly assumes I want to use! It's so weird I can't even create a screen capture of it because it seems to disable many, if not most, keys on the keyboard. This has got to be a Microsoft load of toxic, belligerent, mind-bogglingly hateful "features", since the exact same thing happens regardless of the bluetooth keyboard manufacturer or design.

But maybe if I knew which scan codes F1 (or F2, since it seems to the same thing as F1) sends to SciTE for AutoIt, I could remap/reassign it/them to send the proper code instead of whatever hateful code it's sending that creates the Popup From Hell. On the other hand, that might not work either, so if anyone has any ideas to try, I would appreciate it.

Thanks!

Edited June 10, 2023 by Mbee

[TimRude]

Just a guess here, but maybe the bluetooth keyboards you're trying have the F1-F12 keys set to work as auxiliary-function keys rather than F-keys. For example, a number of "modern" keyboards default to remapping the F1-F12 keys for stuff like volume up/down/mute, search, browse, etc. instead of just plain F1-F12 like nature intended. I attribute that to the dumbing-down of computer users, so that using an actual F1-F12 key is considered an 'advanced' option that must be deliberately triggered by pressing a Fn key along with it to keep the dummies from accidentally doing it.

Often, you can toggle this to default to F1-F12 instead, requiring  the Fn key to trigger the auxiliary function, but sometimes you can't. So then you have to press Fn+F1 to actually get an F1 instead of whatever foolishness they assigned to that once useful key.

Is there a Fn key on your bluetooth keyboard? If so, what happens if you press Fn+F1?