Window-Specific HotKeySet()

[BillW92]

Hi all, been using AutoIt for a couple weeks now... pretty neat stuff. I'm working on a GUI application (notepad clone - I always do one when learning a new language) which uses HotKeySet(). Unfortunately, it seems to be setting system-wide hotkeys, with no ability to limit it to one window. Searching the forum, I found a thread with this as a feature request. Has this functionality been added, and I've just missed it in the helpfile? Or, perhaps, is there a UDF that gets the job done?

TIA, Bill

[martin]

Hi all, been using AutoIt for a couple weeks now... pretty neat stuff. I'm working on a GUI application (notepad clone - I always do one when learning a new language) which uses HotKeySet(). Unfortunately, it seems to be setting system-wide hotkeys, with no ability to limit it to one window. Searching the forum, I found a thread with this as a feature request. Has this functionality been added, and I've just missed it in the helpfile? Or, perhaps, is there a UDF that gets the job done?

TIA, Bill

If you mean that when you hit the hot key combination the script will react even if it doesn't have focus then all you have to do is add something like this to the defined function for the hot key-

Func myhotkey1()

If not WinACtive("my gui Title") then return

.

.

..

Is that what you mean?

[BillW92]

If you mean that when you hit the hot key combination the script will react even if it doesn't have focus then all you have to do is add something like this to the defined function for the hot key-

Func myhotkey1()

If not WinACtive("my gui Title") then return

.

.

..

Is that what you mean?

Yes, it is... I would rather not have to include the check, though. Oh well. Thanks anyway....

Edited July 10, 2007 by BillW92

[Emiel Wieldraaijer]

I believe you are looking for something like this

#include <Misc.au3>

Include in you While/Wend Loop

if BitAND (_IsPressed ("12"), _IsPressed ("58")) and WinActive ("YourGuiName") Then Exit

this is ALT-X only active in the masterscreen of your GUI. When you remove the "and WinActive ("YourGuiName") " then it will be available in the whole GUI

Look for _IsPressed in the Help File

Best regards,

Emiel Wieldraaijer

Edited July 10, 2007 by Emiel Wieldraaijer

[Wooltown]

Excerpt from my script

Opt("GUIOnEventMode", 1)
Global Const $WM_ACTIVATEAPP = 0x001C
Global Const $GUI_Main_Title = "My GUI"
Global Const $LVM_GETITEM          = $LVM_FIRST + 5

GUIRegisterMsg($WM_ACTIVATEAPP, "_ToggleHotkeys")

GUCreate ("MyGUI",100,100)
GUISetOnEvent($GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, "GUIExit")

While 1
    Sleep(1000)
Wend


; =====================================================================================
Func _ToggleHotkeys() 
    If WinActive($GUI_Main_Title)  Then
        HotKeyEnable()
           Else
        HotKeyDisable()
           EndIf
EndFunc
; =====================================================================================
Func HotKeyEnable()
    HotKeySet("^w","FunctionName")
EndFunc
; =====================================================================================
Func HotKeyEnable()
    HotKeySet("^w")
EndFunc

This is the way I do it, remember for performance reason, Always use Opt("GUIOnEventMode", 1)

Hope you understand else just ask.

[BillW92]

Excerpt from my script

This is the way I do it, remember for performance reason, Always use Opt("GUIOnEventMode", 1)

Hope you understand else just ask.

Very nice! thank you very much.