How to share the Enter key?

[qwert]

I use a script that takes its keyboard entry from the numeric keypad ... and defines the (Numeric) Enter Key as a hotkey to initiate a calculation function. The problem is that whenever my script is active, the normal Enter Key is not seen by other applications ... NotePad, for example.

How can I "share" the normal enter key? In other words, have it received by my script when it's active -- and by other applications when it's not.

BTW, defining the hotkey to be {NumPadEnter} instead of {Enter} isn't allowed -- per the documentation -- and it doesn't work, either.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Xenobiologist]

Hi,

check your script being active if not release hotkey.

Mega

[ResNullius]

I use a script that takes its keyboard entry from the numeric keypad ... and defines the (Numeric) Enter Key as a hotkey to initiate a calculation function. The problem is that whenever my script is active, the normal Enter Key is not seen by other applications ... NotePad, for example.

How can I "share" the normal enter key? In other words, have it received by my script when it's active -- and by other applications when it's not.

BTW, defining the hotkey to be {NumPadEnter} instead of {Enter} isn't allowed -- per the documentation -- and it doesn't work, either.

Thanks in advance for any help.

You may not even have to set it as a hotkey; when does the user usually press enter to invoke the calculation? Is it after putting something into an input or edit box?

[qwert]

Is it after putting something into an input or edit box?

Yes (after an input field entry), but I've tried it without the Hotkey definition and hitting Enter just highlights a portion of the entry field. There's nothing to activate the calculation. And BTW, using the Enter key is essential to the entry procedure -- to provide a convenient sequence (as opposed to having to click a calc button on the GUI, for example).

[ResNullius]

Yes (after an input field entry), but I've tried it without the Hotkey definition and hitting Enter just highlights a portion of the entry field. There's nothing to activate the calculation. And BTW, using the Enter key is essential to the entry procedure -- to provide a convenient sequence (as opposed to having to click a calc button on the GUI, for example).

Something like this?

#include <GUIConstants.au3>

GUICreate("Calc GUI")

GUICtrlCreateLabel("Your input here. Hit ENTER when Done", 10, 15, 300, 20)
$inp = GUICtrlCreateInput("", 10, 35, 300, 20)

GUICtrlSetState($inp, $GUI_FOCUS)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

; Run the GUI until the dialog is closed
While 1
    $msg = GUIGetMsg()
    Switch $msg
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
        Case $inp ;if Enter is hit in this field then...
            _MyCalcFunc()
    EndSwitch
WEnd

Func _MyCalcFunc()
  $var = GuiCtrlRead($inp)
  MsgBox(0,"VAR to work with",$var)
  ;rest of calc stuff here
EndFunc

[qwert]

Something like this?

Case $inp ; if Enter is hit in this field then...

_MyCalcFunc()

Thanks very much. This simple test for "entry complete" works great.