AHK-generator

A single page website to provide a UI for the some of the most common uses for Auto Hotkey and defining custom hotstrings and hotkeys to trigger them. Published under MIT License. Available at http://ahkgen.com

Usage

• Go to http://ahkgen.com

• Choose between Hotkey or Hotstring

  • Hotkey is used for a key combination pressed at once (i.e. CTRL + SHIFT + I)

  • Hotstring is used for a series of keys pressed in order (i.e. ;internet)

• Enter trigger value

  • For hotkey, select whether CTRL, SHIFT, Windows, and/or ALT must also be pressed and enter the key to be hit
  • For hotstring, enter the value to be typed

• Select a function

  ActivateOrOpen

    Brings a program whose title matches the Window (defaulting to 'contains' mode) to the front or runs the Program
  

  Send

    Sends input (types for you)
  

  Replace

    Removes what was just typed (for hotstring, treated like send for hotkey) and sends the value
  

  SendUnicodeChar

    Sends the unicode character given the UTF-16 value
  

  ActivateOrOpenChrome

    Searches through Chrome windows/tabs for tab with provided name - opens chrome.exe "url" if not found
  

  OpenConfig

    Open this config page in default browser
  

  Custom

    A sandbox for creating your own usage of the hotkey/hotstring
  

• Add more keys by pressing the "+" button at the bottom

• Remove rows by clicking the "x" button on the right

• Click submit to reload page and generate code. (download will be available once reloded)

• Share/save configuration by sending URL

Project dependencies

This project relies on a couple of open source libraries