WINDOWS hotkeys

[Erstam]

Hello everybody,

in G3 I have defined several hotkeys to launch applications. All hotkeys consist of the WIN key + a letter (e.g. WIN + i to launch Internet Explorer). I want to transfer these to G4b4.

in G3 these keys work fine, in G4 they do not only launch the application but also launch the Windows start menu. The start menu get's triggered by the Up event of the WIN key (code 5B00000LE). Here is the event log when I press WIN + i (first event is the bottommost). "490000L0 <DOWN>" is the code I assigned to the hotkey action event.



Keyboard 5B00000LE <UP>
Keyboard 4900000L0 <UP>
Internet Explorer Command executed
OSD Lua Success &#40;Nothing Triggered&#41;
Keyboard 4900000L0 <DOWN>
Keyboard 5B00000L0 <DOWN>


I only want to start the application and don't want to open the start menu. Does anyone know how I would do this?

Erstam

[quixote]

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[Erstam]

If anyone wants to use WIN hotkeys as well, here is a solution for all hotkeys in combination with WIN to not open the start menu:

Since I used a statusmessage OSD to show what application I was launching anyway I simply blocked the WINDOWS <UP> key and unbocked it right after the OSD:


keyboard.AddBlockedKey&#40;'5B0000LE'&#41;
osd.StatusMessage&#40;'Internet Explorer'&#41;
keyboard.RemoveBlockedKey&#40;'5B0000LE'&#41;

After this scripting action I simply used a "OS - File Execute" action to launch the application I want.

Permanently blocking the WINDOWS <UP> key does not make sense, since I want this key to open the start menu when not using it as a hotkey.

Erstam