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  13. <h1>Advanced Hotkey Features</h1>
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  16. <h2 id="toc">Table of Contents</h2>
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  17. <ul>
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  18.   <li><a href="#general">General</a>
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  19.     <ul>
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  20.       <li><a href="#easy-to-reach">Remap easy to reach but rarely used keys</a></li>
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  21.       <li><a href="#keys-as-modifiers">Use any keys as modifiers</a></li>
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  22.       <li><a href="#AltTab">Make the mouse wheel perform alt-tabbing</a></li>
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  23.       <li><a href="#keyboard-to-mouse">Make a keyboard key become a mouse button</a></li>
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  24.       <li><a href="#context-sensitive">Make your hotkeys context-sensitive</a></li>
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  25.       <li><a href="#hotstrings">Define abbreviations that expand as you type them</a></li>
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  28.   <li><a href="#gaming">Gaming</a>
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  30.       <li><a href="#wear-and-tear">Reduce wear and tear on your fingers</a></li>
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  31.       <li><a href="#mouse-hotkeys">Create mouse hotkeys</a></li>
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  32.       <li><a href="#pass-through">Create "pass-through" hotkeys</a></li>
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  33.       <li><a href="#game-actions">Automate game actions on the screen</a></li>
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  34.       <li><a href="#keyboard-hook">Use the keyboard hook</a></li>
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  37.   <li><a href="#related">Related Topics</a></li>
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  40. <h2 id="general">General</h2>
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  42. <h3 id="easy-to-reach">Remap easy to reach but rarely used keys</h3>
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  43. <p>Some of the easiest keys to reach on the keyboard are also the least frequently used. Make these keys do something useful! For example, if you rarely use the right <kbd>Alt</kbd> key, make it perform the action you do most often:</p>
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  44. <pre>RAlt::
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  45. MsgBox You pressed the right ALT key.
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  46. return</pre>
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  47. <p>You can even do the above without losing the native function of the right <kbd>Alt</kbd> key by assigning the right <kbd>Alt</kbd> key to be a &quot;prefix&quot; for at least one other hotkey. In the below example, the right <kbd>Alt</kbd> has become a prefix, which automatically allows it to modify <strong>all</strong> other keys as it normally would. But if you press and release the right <kbd>Alt</kbd> key without having used it to modify another key, its hotkey action (above) will take effect immediately:</p>
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  48. <pre>RAlt &amp; j::AltTab</pre>
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  50. <h3 id="keys-as-modifiers">Use any keys as modifiers</h3>
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  51. <p>Don't be limited to using only <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>, <kbd>Alt</kbd>, <kbd>Shift</kbd>, and <kbd>Win</kbd> as modifiers; you can combine <strong>any</strong> two keys or mouse buttons to form a custom hotkey. For example: Hold down Numpad0 and press Numpad1 to launch a hotkey (<code>Numpad0 &amp; Numpad1::</code>); hold down <kbd>CapsLock</kbd> and press another key, or click a mouse button (<code>CapsLock &amp; RButton::</code>). In this case, the <kbd>CapsLock</kbd> key's state (on or off) is not changed when it is used to launch the hotkey. For details, see <a href="Hotkeys.htm#combo">custom combinations of keys</a>.</p>
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  53. <h3 id="AltTab">Make the mouse wheel perform alt-tabbing</h3>
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  54. <p>Convert the mouse wheel (or any other keys of your choice) into a complete substitute for Alt-Tab. Click the wheel to show or hide the menu, and turn it to navigate through the menu. The wheel will still function normally whenever the Alt-Tab menu isn't visible. Syntax:</p>
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  55. <pre>MButton::AltTabMenu
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  56. WheelDown::AltTab
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  57. WheelUp::ShiftAltTab</pre>
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  59. <h3 id="keyboard-to-mouse">Make a keyboard key become a mouse button</h3>
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  60. <p>Make a keyboard key <strong>become</strong> a mouse button, or have an action repeated continuously while you're holding down a key or mouse button. See the <a href="misc/Remap.htm#RemapMouse">remapping page</a> for examples.</p>
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  62. <h3 id="context-sensitive">Make your hotkeys context-sensitive</h3>
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  63. <p>Have your easiest-to-reach hotkeys perform an action appropriate to the type of window you're working with. In the following example, the right <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> key performs a different action depending on whether Notepad or Calculator is the active window:</p>
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  64. <pre>#IfWinActive ahk_class Notepad
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  65. RControl::WinMenuSelectItem, , , File, Save  <em>; Save the current file in Notepad.</em>
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  67. #IfWinActive Calculator
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  68. RControl::Send, ^c!{tab}^v  <em>; Copy the Calculator's result into the previously active window.</em></pre>
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  69. <p>See <a href="commands/_IfWinActive.htm">#IfWinActive</a> for details.</p>
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  71. <h3 id="hotstrings">Define abbreviations that expand as you type them</h3>
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  72. <p>Also known as <a href="Hotstrings.htm">hotstrings</a>. No special training or scripting experience is needed.  For example, a script containing the following lines would expand ceo, cfo, and btw wherever you type them:</p>
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  73. <pre>::ceo::Chief Executive Officer
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  74. ::cfo::Chief Financial Officer
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  75. ::btw::by the way</pre>
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  77. <h2 id="gaming">Gaming</h2>
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  79. <h3 id="wear-and-tear">Reduce wear and tear on your fingers</h3>
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  80. <p>Reduce wear and tear on your fingers by using virtually <a href="KeyList.htm">any key</a> as a hotkey, including single letters, arrow keys, Numpad keys, and even the modifier keys themselves (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd>/<kbd>Alt</kbd>/<kbd>Win</kbd>/<kbd>Shift</kbd>).</p>
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  82. <h3 id="mouse-hotkeys">Create mouse hotkeys</h3>
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  83. <p>Create mouse hotkeys, including the mouse wheel button (MButton) and the turning of the wheel up/down or left/right (WheelUp, WheelDown, WheelLeft, and WheelRight). You can also combine a keyboard key with a mouse button. For example, control-right-button would be expressed as <code>^RButton::</code>.</p>
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  85. <h3 id="pass-through">Create "pass-through" hotkeys</h3>
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  86. <p>For example, the left mouse button can trigger a hotkey action even while the click itself is being sent  into the game normally (syntax: <code>~LButton::</code>).</p>
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  88. <h3 id="game-actions">Automate game actions on the screen</h3>
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  89. <p>Use commands such as <a href="commands/PixelSearch.htm">PixelSearch</a>, <a href="commands/PixelGetColor.htm">PixelGetColor</a>, and <a href="commands/ImageSearch.htm">ImageSearch</a> to automate game actions.</p>
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  91. <h3 id="keyboard-hook">Use the keyboard hook</h3>
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  92. <p>Have the option of using the <a href="commands/_UseHook.htm">keyboard hook</a> to implement hotkeys, which might be more responsive than other hotkey methods while the CPU is under load in a game. The hook might also be able to override any restrictions a game may have about which keys can be &quot;mapped&quot; to game actions.</p>
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  96.   <li><a href="Hotkeys.htm">Hotkeys</a></li>
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  97.   <li><a href="Hotstrings.htm">Hotstrings</a></li>
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  98.   <li><a href="misc/Remap.htm">Remapping Keys</a></li>
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