Sending special characters via callback

Revvilo commented 5 years ago

Some of the macros I make are to create shortcuts to special characters such as ✔. (Don't know the technical term for them) But currently those characters don't seem to send correctly from within a callback. For example that tick comes out as âœ” when using any of the sending options available in AHK.

I don't really know enough about character formatting and inputs to guess why it'd be happening, but here's a script I made to reproduce it.

#SingleInstance, Force
#Persistent
#Include Lib\AutoHotInterception.ahk

AHI := new AutoHotInterception()

; Use your keyboard's handle
AHI.SubscribeKey(AHI.GetKeyboardIdFromHandle("HID\VID_03F0&PID_0024&REV_0130"), GetKeySC("F1"), true, Func("CallbackFunction"))

CallbackFunction(state) {
    If !state
        Return

    SendInput, ✔
}

I'd be interested in any workaround if you know of one.

evilC commented 5 years ago

Does F1::SendInput, ✔ suffer from the same problem? If so, it's nothing to do with AHI

Revvilo commented 5 years ago

No, it doesn't, made sure to check that first. Sorry I was a bit tired when writing that and must've spaced out on it.

Revvilo commented 5 years ago

Ah okay, I'd guess that this might be the normal behaviour of the character and AHK just has a system in place to allow for what I did in SendInput, ✔ under normal circumstances, which these, I guess, are not. I replaced the tick with the Unicode {U+2713} for it and it works perfectly.

Hopefully, this will serve as some help to anyone who has the same problem in the future. Perhaps mention it in the docs?

evilC / AutoHotInterception

Sending special characters via callback #24