Comment by Stratoscope
4 years ago
Yup, you can still do that. AutoHotkey is a wonderful tool for this. You can intercept input events globally, and transform them or send completely different events to the target app.
For example, I use AutoHotkey to implement my JKLmouse program, which turns certain keyboard events into mouse movement for precise control. It's similar to the MouseKeys that comes with Windows, but made for laptop keyboards without numeric keypads.
And yes, you could definitely do that Minesweeper hack in AutoHotkey! :-)
Would you mind sharing that script? I have been looking for something simmiliar, but didn't find anything that worked well and did not have the time yet to give it a try myself. I would really appreciate it.
Sure. I didn't want to engage in self-promotion, but since you asked, here's the website and source code. There is an installer, but it's kind of old. I suggest installing AutoHotkey itself, then download the JKLmouse.ahk and JKLmouse.ico files from GitHub, and put a shortcut to the .ahk in your Startup folder.
https://www.jklmouse.com/
https://github.com/geary/jklmouse/tree/master/AutoHotkey/Sou...
One thing to note is that I wrote this to use on my ThinkPads, which have physical mouse buttons. On a laptop where the touchpad itself is the mouse button, it may be difficult to avoid nudging the mouse position when you click.
I've been thinking about adding support for using other keys as "mouse buttons", but haven't done anything about it yet.
This is really cool. It's like the Mouse feature if QMK but works with any keyboard!