Add ability to type strings

[EmergencyTemporalShift]

I've got a tool I used in gmod that allowed me to swap tools in gmod, but it used Autohotkey and I've since swiched to Fedora. (It was sooo verbose anyway, required a lot of work to set up each command.
Here's what one of the commands I set up did.
send ``
sleep, 100
send use gmod_tool{enter}
send gmod_toolmode wire_adv{enter}
send {esc}
to switch to the wiremod wire tool.
If I could have the tools to streamline this in any way possible, that would be great.

[EmergencyTemporalShift]

Could this be done with a minor change to the interface? It seems like the character input supports lists of characters anyway.

[stele95]

Strings are essentially a list/combination of key presses, so you should be able to set it up with the current implementation. It might not be as straightforward as typing the needed string in the input field, but it still can be achieved by using the "Key press/combination" command. The latest version also supports recording ESC, Space and Enter buttons inside the combination.

I'm not sure that I completely understand what exactly you need.

[EmergencyTemporalShift]

My apologies, I meant a text box, so I could paste some text in and edit it. I have preexisting text.

[stele95]

That would not be a minor change since the current implementation records events through kernel events, you are not typing directly in the input box, and for each event multiple things are recorded:

• event type: if it's a press or a release of a key (those are two separate events in terms of kernel events) and that's why you first see "hold {pressed button}" and then just "{pressed button}" after you release it
• event name: the key being pressed, used mostly for UI
• scan code: kernel's code for that particular key

Later when sending events to the kernel for execution, a combination of event type and scan code is used to simulate key presses on the keyboard in the right order in which they were recorded.

That being said, it would be possible to have a text box where you would paste a single command, e.g. use gmod_tool{enter}, and then save it as a "key press/combination" command, but it would require additional code changes to extract the event type and scan code combination, so this is by all means a new feature which I can probably add without too much effort.

Pasting a list of commands (e.g. the whole list you mentioned in the original comment) and then parsing them all to their respective linvam command is not something I see like supporting since it would require you to edit that list with the specific identifiers for events that linvam expects, and it would probably take you the same or more time to edit the list instead of just setting up each command individually.

[EmergencyTemporalShift]

Yeah totally, it was not my intention to have you parse ahk syntax directly, I just want to be able to paste long commands, especially ones that have parts that are shared, like the gmod_use_tool. Most of the bulk of the hot keys I want are normal text.

[stele95]

Cool, I'll let you know when I have something ready, probably in the next few days