Conditional hotstring? Topic is solved

[Nwb]

Is this possible?

I want
::imo::In my opinion,

To function if enter was the last button pressed. (excluding when imo was typed)

Or else I want

::imo::in my opinion.

To function.


So how would you go about doing this? The if enter was pressed part? Can you give me an example script for that I appreciate it thanks.
I'm guessing it will need a loop to check if enter was pressed, and something that would wait for more than three characters to be typed?

[Helgef]

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:X:imo::sendinput % "in my opinion" . (a_endchar == "`n" ? "," : ".")

Cheers

[Odlanir]

Someone can explain me why this does not work

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:X:imo::sendinput % "in my opinion" . (a_endchar == "`n" ? "," : ".")

it writes

sendinput % "in my opinion" . (a_endchar == "
" ? "," : ".")

... while this works

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:X:imo::
	sendinput % "in my opinion" . (a_endchar == "`n" ? "," : ".")
return

it writes

in my opinion. ; with any key
in my opinion, ; with enter

[Helgef]

Autohotkey v1.1.24.02 64-bit Unicode

Update . X option is new.

[Odlanir]

@Helgef THX.

[Nwb]

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:X:imo::sendinput % "in my opinion" . (a_endchar == "`n" ? "," : ".")

Cheers

Woah thanks a lot that's really useful.

However that is not what I meant. In your script, it sends out ',' or '.' depending on which end character was used to trigger the hotstring.
But what I want, is if the {enter} button was pressed right before the hotstring is typed, that it says In my opinion, instead of in my opinion. Also notice that there is an uppercase. Is this possible?

[jeeswg]

Perhaps something like this:

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:B0C:`nImo::
SendInput, {Backspace 3}n my opinion,
return

::imo::in my opinion.

The C option can be helpful for specifying the case of the trigger, and SendInput can be helpful for specifying the case of the output string.

[Nwb]

Perhaps something like this:

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:B0C:`nImo::
SendInput, {Backspace 3}n my opinion,
return

::imo::in my opinion.

The C option can be helpful for specifying the case of the trigger, and SendInput can be helpful for specifying the case of the output string.

Thanks I totally forgot about `n!!! You're an angel! This made it so much less complex.
Do you have list for other keys like tab and shift?

[gregster]

Do you have list for other keys like tab and shift?

These are rather different things, `n is not a key. Here you can find escape sequences: https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/_EscapeChar.htm Hotkey modifiers like 'shift' on the other hand: https://autohotkey.com/docs/Hotkeys.htm#Symbols

[Nwb]

Do you have list for other keys like tab and shift?

These are rather different things, `n is not a key. Here you can find escape sequences: https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/_EscapeChar.htm Hotkey modifiers like 'shift' on the other hand: https://autohotkey.com/docs/Hotkeys.htm#Symbols

Thanks precisely what I wanted!

[jeeswg]

- Not every key can be used as a hotstring, for tab you can use `t. For shift, sometimes you can specify the key that you would get when you hold down shift, shift+a -> A, shift+1 -> !.

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:*:!abc::def
:*:`tabc::ghi

- I did make a suggestion that AutoHotkey could add support for all keys within hotstrings (classic 'easier said than done'), workarounds would be to use the Input command, or to add ~ (tilde) hotkeys for every key, that reset A_PriorKey (and check the value of A_PriorKey within the code for the hotstring).