Splitting when holding shift

[KevinKib]

I've read that it was a known issue that holding shift, ctrl or alt prevent LiveSplit & WSplit from registering the splitkey correctly.

However, my speedgame implies having to hold shift at some point where a split will occur.

Which is why I'm asking, do you think this issue is likely to get a fix someday? Or is it an issue related to LiveSplit limitations?

If it's actually possible I could help doing so

[KevinKib]

Small note - if the split key is something like Insert, the bug does not happen. Might be useful for others than myself

[Toufool]

Going to keep this open to remind me to attempt to fix this bug at some point. It definitely needs to be fixed for anyone playing PC games since shift is so common. I think the current reason why it doesn't work is because shift, ctrl, and alt are modifiers. Although, I kind of have a workaround for this:

Here's a scenario on how this works:

Lets say I set Start / Split hotkey in AutoSplit as "g". When AutoSplit passes the threshold on an image, it will type g. But, if you are holding shift when this occurs, it will modify g as Shift+g. LiveSplit will read of this as "G, Shift" and not just "G", which is why it won't split.

So, for now, if you think that you will be holding shift each time AutoSplit splits, you can set LiveSplit "[key], Shift" and AutoSplit to "[key]". However, with these settings, you will HAVE to be holding shift down each time AutoSplit splits.

[thquinn]

Popping in to say that at least one other person wants this feature! (Thanks for a very handy piece of software, by the way.)

[Avasam]

@Sekanor & @thquinn
I'm not sure if I understand this question correctly, but might be fixed by #61 ?
You can try out my latest release https://github.com/Avasam/Auto-Split/releases

[Avasam]

Oh I think I understand the issue now. Due to the way it works, I don't think it's likely to be fixed from AutoSplit's side, unless modifiers are supported.
In a way, #60 takes care of that.
However, this seems to have been fixed in LiveSplit anyway, as I can set a key without modifiers, and LiveSplit will still catch it with modifier.

This can be closed in favor of #34