Activate a Hotkey

[thewaliii]

It would be nice to run a combination of shortcut keys. For example

Certain applications execute specific commands when a hotkey is pressed. Therefore, it would be helpful if WinXCorner could activate any command by triggering a hotkey.

[vhanla]

A WIP that has a simple pseudo script parser for doing this

The hotkeys will be as follows:
_control or control or control_ where _ means hold or release (prefixed, appended) and without it, a full key press. This will be useful if you have a sequence of hotkeys to do, like _control+k+control_+_control+_b for VSCode for instance, that will do a ctrl+k then ctrl+b to toggle the sidebar.

There is more, it will check for windows on foreground/currently focused, or globally, whether by only its classname or with titlebar text too. The conditional pseudo script will be as follows:

! = follows sequence of hotkeys as mentioned above
# = follows [classname,title] there title is optional to match with current focused window
@ = follows [classname,title] there title is optional to match with any opened window

So #[classname,title]:(sequence of hotkeys)?(optional sequence of hotkeys in case condition is not met)

For instance the following will check if current window is VSCode's and will invoke ctrl+k ctrl+b sequence of hotkeys, other wise if not on VSCode, just invoke the Start Menu.

#[Chrome_WidgetWin_1]:(_control+k+control_+_control+_b)?(win)

E.g. #[conditional match]:(hotkey if match)?(hotkey if not)

Another example for Windows 10: This will check if Alt+Tab's window is visible, if so, it will hide it, otherwise it will invoke it, as a faster alternative to Task View.
#[MultitaskingViewFrame]:(escape)?(_control+_alt+tab)

It still needs some adjustments, but this is what I came up with for this interesting feature.

I pushed the code here tonight, I still need to fix some things about the UI.

[SKHasmukh]

can you give me the command for alt+esc key , so I can copy and paste it. It would be great if there is short video of how to write custom command. I am newbie, I tried writing my own but it did not work. Windows 11 Home edition amd ryzen 7 4800H. Thanks👏

[xeahsoon]

A WIP that has a simple pseudo script parser for doing this

The hotkeys will be as follows: _control or control or control_ where _ means hold or release (prefixed, appended) and without it, a full key press. This will be useful if you have a sequence of hotkeys to do, like _control+k+control_+_control+_b for VSCode for instance, that will do a ctrl+k then ctrl+b to toggle the sidebar.

There is more, it will check for windows on foreground/currently focused, or globally, whether by only its classname or with titlebar text too. The conditional pseudo script will be as follows:

! = follows sequence of hotkeys as mentioned above
# = follows [classname,title] there title is optional to match with current focused window
@ = follows [classname,title] there title is optional to match with any opened window

So #[classname,title]:(sequence of hotkeys)?(optional sequence of hotkeys in case condition is not met)

For instance the following will check if current window is VSCode's and will invoke ctrl+k ctrl+b sequence of hotkeys, other wise if not on VSCode, just invoke the Start Menu.

#[Chrome_WidgetWin_1]:(_control+k+control_+_control+_b)?(win)

E.g. #[conditional match]:(hotkey if match)?(hotkey if not)

Another example for Windows 10: This will check if Alt+Tab's window is visible, if so, it will hide it, otherwise it will invoke it, as a faster alternative to Task View. #[MultitaskingViewFrame]:(escape)?(_control+_alt+tab)

It still needs some adjustments, but this is what I came up with for this interesting feature.

I pushed the code here tonight, I still need to fix some things about the UI.

@vhanla Execuse me, when will this feature be released?

[xeahsoon]

Since this feature has not been released yet, those in need can refer to this project to implement shortcut keys. ：https://github.com/xeahsoon/keyboard-simulator

[vhanla]

I published a prerelease, with these new features. https://github.com/vhanla/winxcorners/releases/tag/1.3.1