Re: Can keyboard assignment use Windows key?

["Martin J. Osborne" osborne@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks, Harry and David, for this suggestion. I will try it out.

Martin

On 1/7/2011 3:42 PM, Harry Binswanger wrote:

Martin:

I second David's recommendation of Autohotkey. (I think you can do what
you want directly in XyWrite, but in autohotkey, but we need someone
more knowledgeable than I to explain how.) But this is the Autohotkey
code that would have Windows+x put out "Hello, world."

#x::send Hello, world

Pretty simple, eh? Or, for alt-win-x to launch Notepad:

!#x::run Notepad.exe

Get it, gratis, at:
www.autohotkey.com http://www.autohotkey.com/

Great program, simple, robust, clean.

--Harry


You can use Windows+ in autohotkey to do anything you'd like.
Autohotkey can be active in XyW III+, so I assume in less antiquated
versions. So I assume you can get the Windows key as an additional
shift key that way.

And autohotkey is in any case terrific and works well with XyW.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin J. Osborne" 
Date: Friday, January 7, 2011 12:03 pm
Subject: Can keyboard assignment use Windows key?

> Can key combinations involving the Windows key (located between Ctrl
> and
> Alt on my keyboard) be (re)assigned in a kbd file? I'm thinking of
> using Windows+ for some operations.
>
> It seems that one would need to know the key code for the Windows key;
> a
> bit of googling hasn't led me to it. I see how va $kc gets a key code
>
> for active keys, but I can't see how to do so for keys like Shift,
> Ctrl,
> and Windows.
>
> Anyone have any info?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Martin J. Osborne
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>
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Harry Binswanger
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