Press a key

[Azu]

You know how in some applications there is an option to bind a key, and it says to press the key you wanna use, and it knows which one you pressed? How do I do this in autoit? Would I have to make if conditions for every single key on the keyboard (which would be retarded), or is there a way for it to tell which key is pressed?

[cppman]

HotKeySet()?

#include <misc.au3>

while 1
    For $i = 0 to 255
        if (_IsPressed(Hex($i, 2))) Then MsgBox(0, "", "You pressed " & Chr($i))
    Next
WEnd

maybe?

then of course handle the key accordingly... if (Chr($i) == "A")... PlaySong()..

Edited November 1, 2006 by CHRIS95219

[Azu]

Thanks.

It seems to work with every key on my keyboard.

One problem though, it gets them mixed up :s

With the a-z and 0-9 keys it gets them all perfect, but with ctrl, alt, shift, caps lock, tab, tilde, backspace, and all the G keys on the G15, it displays some kind of ASCII symbol which isn't on my keyboard.. (like the kind you can make with alt+numpad keys)

Why is this happening? It probably isn't really a problem, since it detects it persistently, but it's piqued my curiosity. O_o