is there full Hotkey and Hotstring support?

[levavft]

Hi, I was wondering If there was support for everything that has to do with hotkeys and hotstrings?
for example, support for hotstring options (:?o:somestring::someotherstring)

[spyoungtech]

Almost. Technically, every functionality of AHK is supported through the .run_script API. Hotkeys are supported directly in the API (ahk.hotkey), but Hotstrings for text replacement (e.g. ::btw::by the way ) are not directly supported by the API.

Hotstrings that run scripts can work by using the hotkey API.

I'll make a note to implement hotstrings for simple text replacement in the near future.

Using the Hotkey API, you can do this:

import time
from ahk import AHK
ahk = AHK()
hotstring = ahk.hotkey('::btw', 'MsgBox you typed "btw".')
hotstring.start()
print('hotstring active! Press ctrl+c to stop')

# add a loop to stop the Python script from exiting
while True:
    try:
        time.sleep(0.5)
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        hotstring.stop()  # stop the hotstring script
        break

This is equivalent to the AHK script:

::btw::
MsgBox You typed "btw".
return

You can also implement hotstrings yourself using run_script like:

ahk = AHK()
hotstring = ahk.run_script('::btw::by the way', blocking=False)
print('hotstring active! Press ctrl+c to stop')
# add a loop to stop the Python script from exiting
while True:
    try:
        time.sleep(0.5)
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        hotstring.terminate()  # stop the hotstring script
        break