AHKFiles

A set of AutoHotKey scripts I use daily on my Windows computers.

Generally written to avoid annoyances I find when using Windows.

Features

• Modified version of FocuslessScroll, which allows you to scroll the window under the cursor and adds acceleration. This version has been modified to include "natural" (inverse) scrolling.
• Shortcut to minimise windows by scrolling on their titlebar
• Mac-like hotkeys for various common functions like sleeping the display, shutting down, rebooting
• Media and volume keys modeled after Apple's keyboard layouts
• Accidental presses of Caps Lock are ignored - you need to press it for at least 100ms to register (most accidental presses are quicker than that)
• Clipboard monitor which rewrites afp protocol links as Windows-friendly SMB paths (Note: Is not aware of context. Simply translates host and path name)
• Pauses iTunes playback (if running and playing) on session lock
• iTunes metadata support (Incomplete at this stage)
• Volume meter (showing the first 20% of the volume scale) compatible with Windows Vista and Windows 7. Disabled on Windows 8 in favour of Windows' new built-in volume meter
• Relatively convenient Scroll Lock toggle for most key overrides (but not all hotkeys) so it doesn't interrupt anything
• A handful of basic hotstrings (still playing with this for now)

Requirements

• Windows Vista, 7 or 8 (Note that Vista is not tested)
• A Unicode version of Autohotkey_L (Current versions of Autohotkey seem to all "just work" but YMMV)
• The Vista Audio Control library

Setup

• Make sure Autohotkey is installed
• Unzip or checkout this code to a directory of your choosing (somewhere in Documents is probably a good idea)
• (Optional) Disable components (see "config.ini" section below)
• (Optional) Put a volume.wav file in the same directory to play a short sound when changing volume (Extracting and converting volume.aiff from an OS X system works nicely - not provided for obvious legal reasons)
• Create a shortcut in your Startup folder running AutoHotKey for each script you want to run
• Run your shortcuts (they won't run automatically until you log back in)

config.ini

The config.ini file, stored in the same directory as the script itself.

General

• clipboard - Enable clipboard monitoring and replacement (true or false)
• itunes - Enable iTunes-specific functionality (true or false)

Hotkeys

• macstyle - Enable Mac-style keyboard shortcuts ("System, Session and Hardware" section below) (true or false)
• itunes - Enable iTunes integration for computer lock pause function (true or false)
• everything - Enable "Everything" search integration. (true or false)
• mediakeys - Enable media playback keys ("Media Playback" section below) (true or false)
• volumekeys - Enable system volume control keys ("System Volume" section below) (true or false)

OSD

• enable - Show volume OSD (Always overridden to "false" on Windows 8) (true or false)

FocuslessScroll

• linespernotchmin - Minimum lines-per-notch value (Controls scroll wheel acceleration) (Number)
• linespernotchmax - Maximum lines-per-notch value (Number)
• accelerationthreshold - Maximum acceleration for scroll wheel (Number)
• accelerationtype - Acceleration algorithm. Either Linear, or Parabolic (L or P)
• stutterthreshold - Threshold for stuttering. Prevents stutter caused by cheap mice. Minimum delay between scroll inputs in milliseconds (Number)
• naturalscrolling - Use Natural scrolling (like on touch devices, and modern versions of Mac OS X) (true or false)
• emulatestandardwithscrolllock - Disable enhancements when Scroll Lock is enabled (true or false)
• titlebarminimise - Enable a shortcut of scrolling down on a window's title bar to minimise it (true or false)

Key Mappings

• Scroll Lock: Enable/Disable hoykeys, natural scrolling and acceleration

NOTE: Shortcuts marked with an asterisk are not disabled by Scroll Lock. Hotkeys disabled within config.ini are not toggled by Scroll Lock. The following can be overriden in the Keymap section of config.ini to use another key.

Media Playback

• F6: Media key Rewind/Previous (mediaprev in config.ini)
• F7: Media key Play/Pause (mediaplay in config.ini)
• F8: Media key Fast Forward/Next (medianext in config.ini)

System Volume

• F9: Mute/Unmute (volumemute in config.ini)
• F10: Volume Down (volumedown in config.ini)
• F11: Volume Up (volumeup in config.ini)

System, Session and Hardware

• Alt+Backspace: Delete to last space*
• Control+Shift+F12, Win+L: Sleep display and lock session* (lock in config.ini)
• Control+Win+Alt+F12: Shut Down*
• Control+Alt+F12: Restart*
• F12: Eject DVD Drive (eject in config.ini)
• Win+Space, Control+f: Search using Everything*

iTunes Metadata

• Control+Win+↑: Increase rating of current iTunes track by half a star* (itunesrateup in config.ini)
• Control+Win+↓: Decrease rating of current iTunes track by half a star* (itunesratedown in config.ini)