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dumbeau / AutoHotPie

Radial menus in Windows, aka PIE MENYOOS!
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Unable to trigger Pie-menu via device buttons #131

Closed hced closed 1 year ago

hced commented 1 year ago

ISSUE After assigning pie-menu hotkeys to be fired from hardware devices (such as the ones listed below) the pie-menu would only flash <5 ms or (more commonly) just do nothing at all. All this while the same hotkey pressed on my keyboard would open the pie-menu as normal.

This issue seems to be effective using both Logitech MX Master 3S using Logi Options+ as well as Wacom Tablet software.

Is there something obvious that I'm missing here?

I'm on Windows 11 Pro (v10.0.22621) and using latest AHP v1.0.27-alpha. (As well as latest Logi Options+ and Wacom Center/Wacom Tablet drivers,)

dumbeau commented 1 year ago

So the wacom devices and the MX Master send their key-down and key-up events immediately whereas your keyboard sends key-down when pressed, and key-up when released.

Try the "Hover over all selections" launchmode for buttons that work that way image

I've found that for the wacom tablet you can use the 4th and 5th click buttons to get the pen to properly send key-down and key-up in relation to the key press. You might like that solution better, I'm not a huge fan of the "hover select" modes.

This is a common problem that comes up, however I wouldn't call it obvious, I need to create some way of detecting that somebody is trying to assign a key coming from a button that works like the wacom tablet/pen or MX master.

Closing, but feel free to ask me questions here.