@mouser:maybe try ^(+(b))
Ahh. The penny just dropped.
Thanks for that. It helps solve a bit of a puzzle for me. I had been meaning to go back and read the rest of the
LBC Help file about this, as it had been niggling away at the back of my mind. I mean, if I had been
wanting to do the same thing as
@kimbriki seemed to be wanting to do, then how might I go about it? I didn't
actually want to do it and couldn't immediately see "why" (i.e., the user requirement) for his wanting to do it, as I thought that, if it was me, then I would usually use
AHK (AutoHotkey) to do send a text string or hotkey and did not see that
LBC was necessarily the "right" tool for that job. However, after reading the rest of that page of the Help file, I think I see that
LBC may have other potential uses extending beyond the obvious and that I had not considered - e.g. (say), it could be used to invoke
AHK functions - effectively as subroutines - opening the way to the possibility of providing a higher level of automation (which I am usually all in favour of).
This had been a minor puzzle for me - one that I had been idly wondering about in the first place, in my exploratory use of
LBC.
I looked in the Help file for something that seemed relevant to what you had written (above). This was the bit that caused me to think:
(Text partially copied below, with my emphasis.)
Sendkeys Documentation
...
Special strings that you can use in a {sendkeys} clip, from the TPushKeys help file:
Function key definitions are enclosed within braces, keys from F1 to F24 are represented by:
{F1}...{F24}
State Modifiers
Shift Key +
Ctrl Key ^
Left Alt Key %
Right Alt Key (Alt Gr) !
Prefix any key definition with the appropriate modifier to affect the key press immediately following it e.g. +ab will result in the key strokes Ab being directed to the application.
To extend the modifier to affect a group of characters enclose them in parentheses e.g !(ab) will result in AB being simulated. Parentheses may be nested so that !(+(ao)) will give ÁÓ.
Note: State Modifiers need not be used with standard keys as they can be entered directly. See example
IMPORTANT: When you want to trigger normal letter keys in combination with Ctrl Alt Shift, you *MUST* use lowercase versions of the letters, or a SHIFT key will be simulated.
To simulate the press and release of a modifier key then the key symbol must be the only character in the Keys string. See example ...
...(there's more).
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This new functionality is provided by the TPushKeys component by Alan Warriner which encapsulates, and extends, Christopher Latta's PushKeys code (alan.warriner@bigfoot.com, www.alan-warriner.co.uk)
I think I now better understand why you embedded TPushKeys functionality in
LBC.
Seems pretty nifty.
