Script for different combinations of mouse clicks (2024)

Hi, trying to write/look for a script that will do different things depending on what combination of mouse clicks/behaviors are done. The combinations I've been trying to get working specifically are:

• double right click does something

• double left click does something

• holding right click does something

• right-left click does something

I got a bit of a janky script working based on stuff I've found, but sometimes it behaves strangely and I'm not sure why. I'd ideally like the script to not affect regular single clicks, ie. you can left and right click normally while the script is running. I'd also extremely appreciate explanations as to how the code works, as I'd love to learn. Thank you in advance.

Hi.

I found this quite tricky, it took me a while until everything worked.
The double click timing is pretty short and since I didn't know what you wanted to send, I inserted SendText for all actions.
Actions are:
LB or RB single click, double click, held and both buttons held.

#Requires AutoHotkey 2.0#SingleInstance; press F4 to exit the script!#HotIf !GetKeyState("RButton", "P")*LButton::#HotIf !GetKeyState("LButton", "P")*RButton:: {if ThisHotkey = A_PriorHotkey && A_TimeSincePriorHotkey < 200SetTimer(Single, 0), Double()else if KeyWait(SubStr(ThisHotkey, 2), "T0.2")SetTimer Single, -100else Held()Single() {if A_ThisHotkey = "*LButton" {SendText "(Single click LButton)"}else {SendText "(Single click RButton)"}}Double() {if A_ThisHotkey = "*LButton" {SendText "(Double click LButton)"}else {SendText "(Double click RButton)"}}Held() {if GetKeyState("LButton", "P") && GetKeyState("RButton", "P") {SendText " (Both buttons held)"KeyWait("LButton")KeyWait("RButton")return}if A_ThisHotkey = "*LButton" {SendText "(LButton held)"KeyWait(SubStr(ThisHotkey, 2))}else {SendText "(RButton held)"KeyWait(SubStr(ThisHotkey, 2))}}}#HotIf*LButton::*RButton::returnF4::ExitApp

Thank you for this, I was planning on having each combination send a different key press, which is something that I could modify pretty easily. I do have a couple of questions regarding the script though.

• Would you mind explaining what the #HotIf and SetTimer lines do? I can't really wrap my head around them just by reading the documentation.

• Is it possible to make it so that the left mouse button behaves normally while the script is running? I don't need the script to do anything if I hold left click, and I'd like to still be able to hold left click to drag things around

• I also would like the single right click to behave as normal

• How would I add functionality for a right click -> left click to do something?

so basically I'd like to script to behave as follows:

• single left click: normal behavior

• single right click: normal behavior

• hold left click: normal behavior

• hold right click: do something

• double left click: do something

• double right click: do something

• right into left click: do something

Noitalommi_2 wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 11:35

Hi.

I found this quite tricky, it took me a while until everything worked.
The double click timing is pretty short and since I didn't know what you wanted to send, I inserted SendText for all actions.
Actions are:
LB or RB single click, double click, held and both buttons held.

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#Requires AutoHotkey 2.0#SingleInstance; press F4 to exit the script!#HotIf !GetKeyState("RButton", "P")*LButton::#HotIf !GetKeyState("LButton", "P")*RButton:: {if ThisHotkey = A_PriorHotkey && A_TimeSincePriorHotkey < 200SetTimer(Single, 0), Double()else if KeyWait(SubStr(ThisHotkey, 2), "T0.2")SetTimer Single, -100else Held()Single() {if A_ThisHotkey = "*LButton" {SendText "(Single click LButton)"}else {SendText "(Single click RButton)"}}Double() {if A_ThisHotkey = "*LButton" {SendText "(Double click LButton)"}else {SendText "(Double click RButton)"}}Held() {if GetKeyState("LButton", "P") && GetKeyState("RButton", "P") {SendText " (Both buttons held)"KeyWait("LButton")KeyWait("RButton")return}if A_ThisHotkey = "*LButton" {SendText "(LButton held)"KeyWait(SubStr(ThisHotkey, 2))}else {SendText "(RButton held)"KeyWait(SubStr(ThisHotkey, 2))}}}#HotIf*LButton::*RButton::returnF4::ExitApp

@jooolius

The thing is, I don't know if it bothers your game if the initial click of a double click comes through. Because otherwise every double click would send a single click first.
I tried to solve this with SetTimer, i.e. to give the script time to differentiate. Thats also why there is a short delay for single clicks, but i don't have a better solution right now.
#Hotif is there so that the hotkeys don't trigger each other when you hold both keys.

Please try this:

#Requires AutoHotkey v2.0#SingleInstance; press F4 to exit the script!#HotIf !GetKeyState("RButton", "P")*LButton::#HotIf !GetKeyState("LButton", "P")*RButton:: {if ThisHotkey = A_PriorHotkey && A_TimeSincePriorHotkey < 200SetTimer(Single, 0), Double()else if KeyWait(SubStr(ThisHotkey, 2), "T0.2")SetTimer Single, -100else Held()Single() => SendEvent("{" SubStr(A_ThisHotkey, 2) "}") ; single left/right click: normal behaviorDouble() {if A_ThisHotkey = "*LButton" {SendText "(Double click LButton)" ; double left click: do something}else {SendText "(Double click RButton)" ; double right click: do something}}Held() {if A_ThisHotkey = "*LButton" { ; hold left click: normal behaviorSendEvent "{LButton down}"KeyWait "LButton"SendEvent "{LButton up}"}else {while GetKeyState("RButton", "P") {if GetKeyState("LButton", "P") {SendText "(right into left click: do something)" ; right into left click: do somethingreturn}}}}}#HotIf*LButton::return*RButton::returnF4::ExitApp

Ok, tried starting fresh using some of the stuff in the code you made, and got this:
#Requires AutoHotkey v2.0

Esc::ExitApp; press Esc to exit the script!~RButton::{ if (!KeyWait("RButton", "T0.15")) { SoundBeep 250, 150 Send "(RB HOLD)" } ; this doesn't work else if (A_PriorHotkey = '~RButton' and A_TimeSincePriorHotkey < 200) { SoundBeep 600, 250 Send "(RB DOUBLE)" }}~LButton::{ if (A_PriorHotkey = '~LButton' and A_TimeSincePriorHotkey < 200) { SoundBeep 250, 150 Send "(LB DOUBLE)" } else if (A_PriorHotkey = '~RButton' and A_TimeSincePriorHotkey < 200) { SoundBeep 1500, 250 Send "(RB LB)" }}

which behaves very closely to how I would like it to, the only problem is that the double right click checking doesn't seem to work and I'm not sure how to fix it.

jooolius wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 22:39

hmmm I see, would it simplify the script if the initial click for every double click goes through?

Yes, that would simplify the script.

jooolius wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 23:20

... the only problem is that the double right click checking doesn't seem to work and I'm not sure how to fix it.

Do the "if" check for the double click first and then the "else if" for the KeyWait.

Hallo,
if the single click is to go through and only something is to be sent with the double clicks:

#Requires AutoHotkey v2.0Triple("~LButton", 300,, "Hello ",, "ahk_class Notepad")Triple("~RButton", 300,, "{Esc}World ",, "ahk_class Notepad")/*Triple("+F2", 300, "1", "2", "^a")Triple("$Space", 300, "{Space}", "`t", "{Bs}", "ahk_class Notepad")Triple("$Enter", 300, "{Enter}", "To whom it may concern,{Enter 2}", "{Enter 2}Yours sincerely,", "ahk_exe WINWORD.EXE")*/Triple(TripleKey, msec:=400, singleKey:="", doubleKey:="", holdKey:="", activeWin:="") { ProcessPress(key) { Static N := 0 held := True, ++N AfterTime() { Send(held?holdKey:(N=1)?singleKey:doubleKey), N := 0 } If (N = 1) { SetTimer AfterTime, -msec KeyWait RegExReplace(TripleKey, ".*?(\W$|\w*$)", "$1") held := False } } HotIf (*) => activeWin?WinActive(activeWin):True Hotkey TripleKey, ProcessPress}