This issue seems to only occur in this one program.

I have the hotkey Shift a set in this programs hotkey editor dialog, I want to trigger it in AHK using Rshift and w;

RShift & w::
SendInput,  {a}
Return

For the life of me, it will not work. I press Rshift and w and nothing happens at all. Triggering the hotkey manually by pressing shift and a works just fine. The strange thing is the following works:

LCtrl & w::
SendInput,  {a}
Return

So does this:

w::
SendInput,  {a}
Return

I also tried to send Rshift back up before triggering the hotkey, no luck:

RShift & w::
SendInput, {RShift up}
SendInput,  {a}
Return

Is there a rule that says you cant use the same modifier as the target hotkey in the trigger that I missed? please dont suggest that I use other modifier keys, shift [key] is all that I have left.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

CodePudding user response：

Firstly, you shouldn't use a custom hotkey combination when a modifier exists (unless you have a good reason to):

For standard modifier keys, normal hotkeys typically work as well or better than "custom" combinations. For example, < s:: is recommended over LShift & s::.

And secondly you shouldn't escape keys in a Send^(docs) command that don't need escaping:

Enclosing a plain ASCII letter (a-z or A-Z) in braces forces it to be sent as the corresponding virtual keycode, even if the character does not exist on the current keyboard layout. In other words, Send a produces the letter "a" while Send {a} may or may not produce "a", depending on the keyboard layout. For details, see the remarks below.

And then about the problem itself:
I of course can't know if this will work, but I'd simply try the following:

> w::a

This would work because because the remapping syntax actually uses the blind sendmode.
Alternatively, you could, of course, just manually use the blind sendmode:

> w::SendInput, {Blind}a