Help with making a quick AutoHotkey script?

[mineturte83]

Simple question I guess. The only two things I want the script to do are hit escape, than left click. Help?

[HunterAP]

You can make a function that does what you want, then map a key to that function. This example maps the F1 key to the function that does as you ask:

myFunction()
{
    Send {Esc}
    Send {Click}
}

^F1::myFunction()

This SHOULD work, but I would read up on the Autohotkey docs. The ones I used just now are Send and Functions.

Hope this helped!

[Dedusko]

#q::
send {esc}
click
return

this is the whole script, put it into a .ahk file (ordinary text file with ahk extension) and you're good to go

 

you activate it by windows key+q

[Dedusko]

@HunterAP it can be even shorter  like this

 

^F1::send {esc}{click}

 

[HunterAP]

1 minute ago, Dedusko said:

@HunterAP it can be even shorter  like this

 

^F1::send {esc}{click}

 

True, I just like putting everything in functions because all my CS professors hammered this idea into the students lol.

[Dedusko]

I hate that notion, sometimes simplicity is way better than conventions. But only in cases like this, where you need a one-liner for a simple task.

 

But don't take this as a criticism of your code, there is nothing wrong with it. Just the teachers forget sometimes to explain to their students that even with functions/objects you can create an unreadable mess out of something simple as a "send {esc}{click}"

[mineturte83]

Thanks! Is there any way to toggle it by any chance? It would be useless for my use but I would still like to see it.