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I need help making a script that holds SHIFT&W and taps CTRL&V!
I would also like the enable key to be F1!

Have you checked the Tutorial?

F1 will be your Hotkey. If you'd like to disable it (end when it's holding Shift and W), check out doing a toggle. This will also show you how to tap the Ctrl+V (Send ^v): (Note: The first link is from the old forums, the second link is on these forums) http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/6 ... re-thread/ or https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=11952

To hold down a key, specify the key name and the down state like this in the Send command: Send {w down}. Shift would be Send {shift down}. Notably, you miiight be able to get away with using Send {W down} as you need shift to produce a capital W most of the time (unless CapsLock is on), but whatever your target program is may not recognize Shift and W are down. Now I will note that if you have Shift held down, AHK will keep it down even when you do Ctrl+V, resulting in a final key combination of Shift+Ctrl+V which you may not want. So you may need to release Shift before you press Ctrl+V. You can release a held down key with Send {Shift up} -- change the down to up. You might be able to use Send {Shift DownTemp} (see the documentation on Send), but it may release Shift when you try to hold down the W key. I'll be exploring it myself to see if I can get it to work.

Edit: I couldn't manage to utilize the {Shift Downtemp}, because once you call any key after it, Shift is released and never pressed down again. So you may as well do a manual release. Whenever you call for Ctrl+V, release Shift and put it back down like this: Send {Shift up}^v{Shift down}. This may not be perfect though depending on your use case and implementation.

Someone will hopefully correct me if there is a better way to accomplish what you like, assuming Shift+Ctrl+V is undesirable for you.

Edit 2:

One thing I forgot to mention is you may need to make your hotkey use the * modifier. If F1 makes Shift hold down, then that means even your physical presses will act like Shift is held down. Which means pressing F1 physically appears to be Shift+F1 to the script, and it won't activate an F1:: hotkey. The * gets around that by saying "Any or no modifiers may be pressed to activate this hotkey", so Shift+F1 and F1 alone activate an *F1:: hotkey.

Exaskryz wrote:Have you checked the Tutorial?

F1 will be your Hotkey. If you'd like to disable it (end when it's holding Shift and W), check out doing a toggle. This will also show you how to tap the Ctrl+V (Send ^v): (Note: The first link is from the old forums, the second link is on these forums) http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/6 ... re-thread/ or https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=11952

To hold down a key, specify the key name and the down state like this in the Send command: Send {w down}. Shift would be Send {shift down}. Notably, you miiight be able to get away with using Send {W down} as you need shift to produce a capital W most of the time (unless CapsLock is on), but whatever your target program is may not recognize Shift and W are down. Now I will note that if you have Shift held down, AHK will keep it down even when you do Ctrl+V, resulting in a final key combination of Shift+Ctrl+V which you may not want. So you may need to release Shift before you press Ctrl+V. You can release a held down key with Send {Shift up} -- change the down to up. You might be able to use Send {Shift DownTemp} (see the documentation on Send), but it may release Shift when you try to hold down the W key. I'll be exploring it myself to see if I can get it to work.

Edit: I couldn't manage to utilize the {Shift Downtemp}, because once you call any key after it, Shift is released and never pressed down again. So you may as well do a manual release. Whenever you call for Ctrl+V, release Shift and put it back down like this: Send {Shift up}^v{Shift down}. This may not be perfect though depending on your use case and implementation.

Someone will hopefully correct me if there is a better way to accomplish what you like, assuming Shift+Ctrl+V is undesirable for you.

Holy SHIFT! I should let you rewrite the manuals for all of my home devices