🔥Adding Hotkey & HotStrings to your menus | Amazing Secret tip🕵️‍♀️
Channel: AUTOHOTKEY Gurus
Date: 2022-03-23

In this AutoHotkey tutorial Isaias Baez explains how easy it is to right-align Hotkeys, HotStrings, etc. in your menus!  This tip isn't listed in the AutoHotkey documentation so be sure to check it ou!
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TLDR: The video covers various tech news and tips, including Amazon's acquisition of MGM, the development of a snippet tool with a hotkey feature, and using AutoHotkey and Windows shortcuts for faster navigation and automation.

1. 00:00 🚀 Joe and Isaias are developing a snippet tool with a hotkey feature using a menu naming technique.
 1.1 Joe and Isaiasare working on a snippet tool with a hotkey feature that Isaias learned about 10 years ago.
 1.2 Menus can have a name and additional text to the right, which is useful for setting hotkeys to open menu items.

2. 01:42 💼  To right align text in menus, use a tab character followed by the desired text, which can be anything and is not tied to hotkeys.

3. 02:55 💡 3.1 The speaker mistakenly added two tabs instead of one, causing confusion and unexpected formatting.
 3.2 The menu item and link function must have exactly the same name for it to work properly.

4. 04:29 1 Learn to read help files to understand the special meaning of escape characters, such as using a backslash tab in menus and a backtick tab in hotkeys.

5. 05:14 💻 Using backtick t in AutoHotkey language allows for direct dll function calls.
 5.1 Use backtick t instead of right in AutoHotkey language to send a dll call directly to a function.

6. 06:46  Backticks and backslashes have different meanings in AutoHotkey scripts, and while backticks are automatically converted to backslashes in hotkeys, they cannot be used literally in regular expressions.

7. 08:21 💡 Microsoft Windows tip: Use the ampersand key to create accelerator keys in menus for faster navigation.
 7.1 To create accelerator keys in menus, use the ampersand key to highlight a letter and pressing that letter will open the corresponding window.

8. 09:45 💻 Using auto hotkey to automate programs with accelerator keys can be fast and accurate, but subject to timing issues and not an API.
 8.1 Using auto hotkey to automate programs with accelerator keys can be fast and accurate, but it is subject to timing issues and not an API.


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