Use Chords in the Send Action Shortcut

[ghost]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

The recent addition of chords in the keyboard manager section is great! I think it would also make sense to have an option for the send action to also be a chord. But im not sure if I understand the use case of this stuff properly.

Scenario when this would be used?

I have in mind using it for Excel which has a lot of Alt + H, and then a long list of options throughout the ribbon. As seen below:

Supporting information

I've wanted a way to be able to remap complicated excel shortcuts that have chords for a long time. I would imagine others would have similar use cases.

thank you for everything you do. Power Toys is an unbelievable project!

[Olanrewaju]

Oh. This would be a great idea. For instance, minimizing an app to the taskbar in Windows requires to send: Alt + Spacebar + N. This cannot currently be done in the PowerToys Keyboard Manager - Remap a shortcut.

[JEFF-LIU-me]

I share all the aforementioned use cases. And I'll add one more: Alt , 1 through Alt , 9, as opposed to Alt + 1..9. This maps to the quick access buttons in MSFT 365 and works more reliably than Alt + 1, e.g. when using Focus Mode in Word (since the Quick Access bar is hidden) and a few other places.

And so many default Windows apps rely upon Alt, <x>, <y> chords. So this feature would be great.

(One step closer to full blown macro functionality! And finally escaping Razer Synapse!)

[Phaje27]

Absolutely! I came here to add this as a Feature Request and found it was already here.

As has been said there would be many apps that require Alt key sequences (or "chords"). My use case is Adobe Reader - basically every pdf file I receive is either a single page in which case I want to Zoom to Page Level (Alt + Z , P) or multiple pages in which case I want to Display Two Page View (Alt + P , P). There is a native Adobe shortcut to Zoom to Page Level (Ctrl + 0) but none to Display in Two Page View.

It would be so much easier to simply use Win + 1 or Win + 2 instead.

[RustyLovecraft]

I want to make shortcuts to utilize the menu bar in Firefox. For example: Alt + V T M toggles the menu bar (using the menu bar). I'd use it more often, but it's clunky.

I want to put it on Alt + C or something easy like that. (F10 would be even better, though the new Remap a key config doesn't [yet?] have per-app settings like Remap a shortcut does, and this would be a problem. But I digress.)

I tried to do Send Text with vtm and press this shortcut after highlighting menu bar, but it doesn't work. (I hear an error noise and the menu bar is defocused. I tested a bit and the browser is definitely getting the inputs.)

Seemingly because there is extremely low delay between the key events. A custom delay to space out those inputs in Send Text might resolve that issue.

Then I'd need to be able to add a special key input to Send Text. Namely Alt. Or I guess, add a text input string to the end of a Send Key/Shortcut.

i.e. Alt + several keys in sequence with brief delay, in whatever mode is appropriate; that coming to PT Keyboard Manager, would be superb.