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drew · Posted: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 3:07 Post subject: TouchStream + Autohotkey

I know autohothey has come up before here and I hope some one can shed some light on the issue I am currently having. I am trying to use the WindowPad.ahk script (http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic21703.html).

The trouble I am having is with the cording of the keys to make the hot key work. The TS appears to be sending repeated key presses rather than a key hold. Is there a setting that I am missing that will change this behavior?

I hope to get this working I had a program that did the same thing (winsplit revolution) but my IT department gave us some "great" new AV software that killed it. I might also find my self to be a AHK addict if this works.

Thanks
drew

ivanw · Posted: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:52 Post subject:

Hi, drew, I'm also heavily relying on AutoHotKey and I will try to help as soon as I can find some time (tomorrow I think)

ivanw · Posted: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:40 Post subject:

One or two years ago I've also used WinSplit, then I used StrokeIt gestures to do the same. So, I could manage to make WindowPad work fine with FW gestures I've mapped for WinSplit. I used Bimanual Point gestures to generate the Numpad key strokes expected by AutoHotKey. The result seems to be satisfying. You may have some ideas for some further adjustments...

1 - This first file shows what must be inserted into your own configuration file in order to include the two others:
* http://pagesperso-orange.fr/ivanw/FW/config/myconfig.xml
...the only relevant line is the one that contains LIB_WindowPadFW

2 - The second one maps Bimanual Point gestures to the Numpad key strokes expected by the WindowPad AutoHotKey script.
* http://pagesperso-orange.fr/ivanw/FW/config/LIB_WindowPadFW.xml

3 - The third one contains a Macro Library that will be included by the file above:
* http://pagesperso-orange.fr/ivanw/FW/config/LIB_WindowPadFW_Macros.xml

As I don't know how familiar you are with MyGesture editor tuning, I'll answer to questions you may have about how to deploy these files...

~ivan

drew · Posted: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 2:49 Post subject:

Thank you for the thorough response. I see from what you did that I may have been complicating things by using the ChordHold / ChordLift events with just the modifier. I was also using ctrl & alt modifiers which I have since learned are problematic.

I am up and running now. Thank you.

drew