How can I replace one key with another key in Autohotkey even in the middle of a word?

Question

I just bumped into this site, so I decided to ask a question :) Please excuse me if I do something wrong...

I have been using Autohotkey (AHK) for a long time but I still don't know how to do a simple key replacement and I also was not able to find the answer with a google search. On my keyboard (Finnish) I have a button which produces "å" (or Å with shift) when I press it. I would like to change that to "ü" (and "Ü" respectively) because I use ü much more than å :)

"::å::ü" does not work at all! And it should also work in the middle of a word (because single letters usually appear in the middle of words ;)).

Thanks for your help!

Tilman

Answer 1

Sorry for not replying earlier. Your code above helped me to get started. Unfortunately, it wasn't quite that easy. However, in the end I managed to get it working! For your reference, this is how I did it:

SC01A:: Send {ASC 0252} ; ü
+SC01A:: Send {ASC 0220} ; Ü
SC00D:: Send {ASC 0223} ; ß

The SC code at the beginning was needed to identify the exact scancode of the keys that I wanted to manipulate. And only the ASC code in those brackets and the Send command brought up the right output that I wanted to have.

Thanks again for your help!

Answer 2

You can do something even better than that. In this site you will find a lot of examples of what can be done with Autohotkey . One of the example-programs is Accents v1.0. Just get the source code and change the accents to what ever you want. You can always read the documentation. Autohotkey has a nice enough one.

Edited after: To do what you requested in the comments:

a::
send {x}
return
+a::
send {X}
return