Fallout 3 is overriding my global hotkeys from other apps

[isamu99]

Hi. Is it possible to prevent Fallout 3 from overriding hotkeys I have from other applications such as Winamp and other media players? I have seevral shortcut keys assigned to both Foobar and Winamp, but as soon as I load fallout the keys are no longer active. Is there a way to stop the game from doing? Or perhaps any third party apps or mods?

[evilneko]

AutoHotkey can hook keys even from behind Fallout. See this thread for info: http://thenexusforums.com/index.php?showtopic=181575

[isamu99]

Hello evilneko and thanks for the reply. I have read that thread and have downloaded Auto HotKey. In that other thread, you wrote the following:

 

This can also be trivially done with a third-party program called AutoHotkey.

 

Download, install, and run it. It will prompt you to create the default script. Say yes. It'll then open the script in notepad.

 

Add these lines

 

x::e

y::a

 

to the script, replacing x and y with whatever key you wish to use. You can delete the rest of the script if you want, most of it is comments to tell you how it works. Save the file and close notepad. Before launching fallout, remember to launch AutoHotkey. After exiting Fallout, remember to right click the AutoHotkey icon in your system try and exit it.

 

Not quite the same as an actual mod for Fallout, but should be good enough til someone makes one for you, and you may find other uses for it.

 

 

I understand for the most part what you've said, and how your example above would allow me to remap the functions and shortcuts in fallout 3.

 

However, I don't see how that helps my problem. What I want to do, is use the global hotheys I have in foobar 2000 to override all the shortcut keys in Fallout 3. Fallout 3 simply disables my Foobar 2000 shortcut keys, and I'm trying to prevent it from doing that.

 

As an example, I have mapped the following shortcut keys in foobar to pause my song.... Ctrl+Alt+P. Pressing these keys pauses my song when opening up other windows and even my browser. But when launching Fallout 3, it no longer does so.

 

So can you tell me what I have to do in Auto Hotkey to prevent Fallout 3 from doing this?

 

Thanks in advance :)

[evilneko]

AutoHotKey can "listen" for the key even when Fallout 3 is running. It's also a very powerful application. The script to pass the hotkeys on to Winamp may be a bit more complicated than simply rearranging keys, but it can be done. Check out the help file under "Automating Winamp" and try the example script. If it works, with a few modifications you can expand it to cover whatever other hotkeys are needed.