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Pizza Overflow
Pizza Overflow

Reputation: 277

Holding down the left mouse button in AutoHotkey

I want a script where pressing F1 makes AutoHotkey hold down the left mouse button. I then want the script to release the mouse once I press the key again.

How can I do that?

Upvotes: 16

Views: 76872

Answers (3)

DaMacc
DaMacc

Reputation: 701

I would use Click down and Click up

Click is generally preferred over MouseClick because it automatically compensates if the user has swapped the left and right mouse buttons via the system's control panel.

F1::
    alt := not alt
    if (alt)
    {
        Click down
    }
    else
    {
        Click up
    }
Return

Upvotes: 15

Forivin
Forivin

Reputation: 15548

Here is a one-liner in case anyone is interested: 

F1::Click % GetKeyState("LButton") ? "Up" : "Down"

Upvotes: 7

PhiLho
PhiLho

Reputation: 41162

Mmm, I am a bit rusty in AHK programming, but here is what I tried, seems to work:

F1::
  alt := not alt
  If (alt)
  {
    MouseClick Left, 217, 51, , , D
  }
  Else
  {
    MouseClick Left, 217, 51, , , U
  }
Return

Upvotes: 0

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