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Garret Wilson
Garret Wilson

Reputation: 21326

AutoHotkey v2 "Nonexistent hotkey" when disabling hotkey

I'm having trouble figuring out how to disable key remappings in AutoHotkey v2. Just to provide a simple test for reproducing the problem, here I map F11 to Home (which works), and then I try to disable it:

F11::Home
Hotkey "F11", "Off"

AutoHotkey tells me:

Error: Nonexistent hotkey.

Specifically: F11

(The error message points to the Hotkey "F11", "Off" line.)

I'm just following the remap documentation for v2, which clearly says:

When a script is launched, each remapping is translated into a pair of hotkeys. For example, a script containing a::b actually contains the following two hotkeys instead:

*a::
{
    SetKeyDelay -1
    Send "{Blind}{b DownR}"
}

*a up::
{
    SetKeyDelay -1
    Send "{Blind}{b Up}"
}

It then goes on to say:

Since remappings are translated into hotkeys as described above, the Suspend function affects them. Similarly, the Hotkey function can disable or modify a remapping. For example, the following two functions would disable the remapping a::b.

Hotkey "*a", "Off"
Hotkey "*a up", "Off"

That seems exactly what I'm doing here. Is this an AutoHotkey v2 bug?

On a related note, once I get this working, do I need to disable/enable the implicit "up" hotkey as well when I toggle a short-form hotkey assignment, like this?

Hotkey "F11", "Off"
Hotkey "F11 up", "Off"
…
Hotkey "F11", "On"
Hotkey "F11 up", "On"

Or do I simply need to toggle the key itself and the "up" key will get toggled automatically?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 800

Answers (1)

Garret Wilson
Garret Wilson

Reputation: 21326

Ah, it appears the mistake was mine, missing the tiny detail in the documentation that a * is added to the hotkey names, which represents a wildcard. Thus my code should be:

F11::Home
Hotkey "*F11", "Off"

That seems to work. I'm still in doubt about whether I need to toggle just "*F11" or both "*F11" and "*F11 up", though.

Upvotes: 1

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