2 actions for one key Topic is solved

[KillShotOW]

Hi. I'm very VERY new to this, and i need a little help.

I want to press one button, this instance F8. The first time i press it, to do #tab, second time i press it !tab.

Can anyone help? Thank you in advance!

[Delta Pythagorean]

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F8::
	SendInput, % (Times = 1) "#{Tab}" : "!{Tab}"
	Times++
	Return

[KillShotOW]

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F8::
	SendInput, % (Times = 1) "#{Tab}" : "!{Tab}"
	Times++
	Return

"Error: A":" is missing its "?"

Line#
002: Return
---> 003: SendInput, % (Times = 1) "#{Tab}" : "!{Tab}"
004: Times += 1
005: Return
006: Exit

The Program will exit."


Help?

[Exaskryz]

So what Delta is doing is called ternary. To correct their code, it would be:

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F8::
	SendInput, % (Times = 1) ? "#{Tab}" : "!{Tab}"
	Times++
	Return

However, this will only produce #{Tab} on the second press of F8; the first will be !{Tab} and all other F8s after will be !{Tab} because Times will always be greater than 1.

To alternate, the variables Times should be changing between two values. A great way to do that is with the logical-not operator ! -- it changes true (1) to false (0) and false (0) to true (1).

I would do it this way, without ternary. And I'll show ternary after this.

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F8::
toggle:=!toggle ; custom variable, you can name it bird or coin or whatever you'd like
If toggle ; if toggle is true or "1"
Send #{Tab}
else
Send !{Tab}
return

Ternary:

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F8::
toggle:=!toggle
Send % (toggle) ? "#{Tab}" : "!{Tab}"
return

You can even consolidate the expression into a single line like this:

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F8::Send % (toggle:=!toggle) ? "#{Tab}" : "!{Tab}"

[KillShotOW]

[quote="Exaskryz"]So what Delta is doing is called ternary. To correct their code, it would be:

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F8::
	SendInput, % (Times = 1) ? "#{Tab}" : "!{Tab}"
	Times++
	Return

However, this will only produce #{Tab} on the second press of F8; the first will be !{Tab} and all other F8s after will be !{Tab} because Times will always be greater than 1.

To alternate, the variables Times should be changing between two values. A great way to do that is with the logical-not operator ! -- it changes true (1) to false (0) and false (0) to true (1).

I would do it this way, without ternary. And I'll show ternary after this.

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F8::
toggle:=!toggle ; custom variable, you can name it bird or coin or whatever you'd like
If toggle ; if toggle is true or "1"
Send #{Tab}
else
Send !{Tab}
return

Ternary:

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F8::
toggle:=!toggle
Send % (toggle) ? "#{Tab}" : "!{Tab}"
return

You can even consolidate the expression into a single line like this:

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F8::Send % (toggle:=!toggle) ? "#{Tab}" : "!{Tab}"

[/quote]


Thank you very much!