Post by A. R. in Idea/Suggestion for Costumes?

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I already made something like this days ago (but it uses HIDMacro in conjunction with AutoHotKey tho), I had posted it in a different thread. https://itch.io/t/3176759/costume-hotkeys-not-working-unless-window-is-active it already has some instructions and I plan to make a new community thread once I finish a video tutorial for it

Fulmine1 year ago

Oh cool! Mine is just plain AutoHotKey. I did see yours but HIDMacro is unmaintained so I wanted to see if I could get it working with just AHK first.

A. R.1 year ago

Yeah I get it. When I made this I had zero knowledge about either if I'm being honest and it was made within a day. I realized a day or two before posting it that you can definitely do it all within AutoHotKey, but I decided to leave it as is because of:

1. User-friendliness once everything is set up (i don't think people want to re-write code that they may not be familiar with every time they want to change a key press),

2. Shortcuts being keyboard dependent (I know there's the AHKHID library, but I haven't been able to look into it in depth and I feel like that would add a lot more complexity to the end user to change/setup something),

3. Laziness :] (main limiting factor if I'm being honest and why I didn't use Lua Macros instead)

4. (as a bonus) integration with other apps like streamer.bot (~~but that doesn't need the HIDMacros part tho~~)