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Key press action does not recognize some key

Open Duke-Archibald opened this issue 4 years ago • 3 comments

I can't get actiona to press the "=,+,¾" key for me the the key parameter just does not accept it

the "«,»,°" and "#,|,," key have the same issue (those are the key and their modified output shift and alt)

Duke-Archibald avatar Nov 15 '21 18:11 Duke-Archibald

Unfortunately some keys are very difficult to emulate because of the cross-platform nature of Actiona. Each operating system has its own convention and codes. Every layout also. It is a huge mess. A workaround would be to record a real key press, save the local key ID and then emulate it. But that would then not be portable to a computer with another keyboard layout or another operating system.

Jmgr avatar Nov 24 '21 19:11 Jmgr

I know i'm late to the party. But a quick fix for me is to set in the OS, keyboard shortcuts and have the key combination assigned to your actiona script to execute. for me in linux its called "Keyboard shortcuts" and i can have a key press run a script. but this is a hard set, so the script if run from the combination above all. so instead of running "=,+,¾" you'll run the script. so you might want to have a weird combination to mimic "=,+,¾" key combinations but also let you use those keys. i set mine to alt and ~ an unset key combination.

highfillgoods avatar Dec 08 '23 05:12 highfillgoods