PC utility to generating keyboard shortcuts?

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 2:41 pm

I'm a Mac user, but bought a PC for remote pan/tilt/zooming of live cameras I use for DJ/VJing (No Mac software available). I want to sequence and control the cameras via MIDI in Live using a MIDI-to-ASCII utility, but the camera software doesn't have keyboard shortcuts, only mousing & clicking.

Is there any way to assign keyboard shortcuts to a Windows program that doesn't have them already in the menus?

Thanks!

youri · Post by **youri** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 2:57 pm

Try this one: http://www.autohotkey.com/

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 3:18 pm

Thanks for that!

It's a start...

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 4:33 pm

afaik it's fully scriptable, so it's more or less infinite in possibilities.

djsynchro · Post by **djsynchro** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 5:40 pm

Hey... that looks very cool!
It says you can hotkey mouseactions...
can you open/close the Live browser with this?

djsynchro · Post by **djsynchro** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 7:15 pm

I will answer my question myself: Just got the program and you can make scripts for mouse clicks, meaning you can have open/close browser as a keyboard shortcut!

grfld · Post by **grfld** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 7:17 pm

For those Mac-Users who know "QuicKeys" for the Mac, there's also a Windows-Version running. Works very well like the Mac-Version.

youri · Post by **youri** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 7:57 pm

djsynchro wrote:I will answer my question myself: Just got the program and you can make scripts for mouse clicks, meaning you can have open/close browser as a keyboard shortcut!

Exactly! (I wanted to answer your question at the moment, however you were faster

)

You can do a lot of helpful things with autohotkey and it`s even quite easy to write a script.
For example a mouseclick to fade in/out the live browser by pressing windoskey+space:
#space::MouseClick, left, 18, 95
....

djsynchro · Post by **djsynchro** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 12:34 am

So I banged together my first ever script in Autohotkey & compiled it so you don't need Autohotkey to run it.

Will Zip the .exe and the original script and post in the Tips & Tricks section

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 12:54 am

someone was bitching about how its all scripty and stuff on another thread where i recommended this app.

it's bloody awesome people are seeing the potential of this thing.

as a community i guess we can do many things ableton don't have the time for///

thanks so much for the tip about opening and closing the browser with this app guys.. kudos!!!

djsynchro · Post by **djsynchro** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 1:27 am

I wrote an Autohotkey script for all the Live 5 browser buttons:

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30369

It's compiled so you it can run standalone.
Never wrote a script before, wasn't so hard after a bit of good old RTFM

Should be quite easy to write keyboard shortcuts that drag clips into Live
(for DJing)... so maybe soon no more Mr. Mouse hmmmm....

Let me know what you think.

grfld · Post by **grfld** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 6:52 am

Just imagine the power of this scripts in combination with bome's miditranslator and a controller like UC-16/UC-17 (or something else)... Live will be the most automatable application in the world!

youri · Post by **youri** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 8:47 am

grfld wrote: Live will be the most automatable application in the world!

HM??
Autohotkey and miditranslator work with every other program, too! Not only with live....

grfld · Post by **grfld** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 10:02 am

youri wrote:Autohotkey and miditranslator work with ever program, too! Not only with live....

Indeed, your right. I was a bit kidding.

But i'm really impressed about the work of the poeple at Ableton. The automation engine of Live is realy good work. Almost every param and the surface is automatable and controlable. And for those few exceptions we have Autohotkey, QuicKeys and Miditranslator.

x/grfld

youri · Post by **youri** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 5:03 pm

Tip: Controlable sample reverse button with autohotkey....
Look at my post here:
http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30369