Hotstring() ignores remapped keys Topic is solved

[Micromegas]

After running the following script

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q::x
Hotstring("::xx", "Roman number 20")

, entering qq correctly writes xx, but that isn't recognized as a hotstring. How can I achieve that?

[guest3456]

for reference, normal hotstring syntax doesn't work either, so its not limited to just the new Hotstring() function:

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q::x
::xx::Roman

i'm not sure if you can chain these like this

[Micromegas]

for reference, normal hotstring syntax doesn't work either

Yup, I assume that doesn't work because it's all done at compile time. (There may be priority issues; unfortunately I didn't see anything about that at Hotstrings and Auto-replace and Remapping Keys and Buttons.) But the beauty of Hotstring() is that it works at runtime, so I was hoping that should work.

[guest3456]

for reference, normal hotstring syntax doesn't work either

Yup, I assume that doesn't work because it's all done at compile time. (There may be priority issues; unfortunately I didn't see anything about that at Hotstrings and Auto-replace and Remapping Keys and Buttons.) But the beauty of Hotstring() is that it works at runtime, so I was hoping that should work.

googling turns up this first result:
https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/9136 ... remapping/

so this works:

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#InputLevel 1
q::x
#InputLevel 0
::xx::Roman

it actually is mentioned on the remapping and hotstrings help pages:
https://autohotkey.com/docs/misc/Remap.htm
https://autohotkey.com/docs/Hotstrings.htm

but not the hotstring() func page:
https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/Hotstring.htm

[Micromegas]

Cool, thanks a lot! I googled, too (well, that is, I DuckDuckWent) and didn't find that. What did you google for?

[guest3456]

Cool, thanks a lot! I googled, too (well, that is, I DuckDuckWent) and didn't find that. What did you google for?

"ahk remapping trigger hotstring"

[Micromegas]

Thanks, the word "trigger" did it. Now DuckDuckGo finds it, too.

BTW, that also finds this stackoverflow Q&A, which has a nice short explanation.

Oh, and the two docs pages do mention InputLevel, but not for the combination of remapping and hotstring, which was what I was looking for. So, it's one of those things that are obvious in hindsight.