Preventing Alt key from menu bar focus

[timothys_monster]

Hey there,

to make the use of Pro Tools and REAPER at the same time easier, I changed some shortcuts in REAPER to match the PT workflow.

Especially with daily tasks like scrolling and zooming my brain would just go nuts otherwise.

Now, I am on Windows 7 and since I use Alt + Mousewheel for zooming in REAPER it always focuses the menu bar when pressing Alt. So If I zoom and then want to press space bar for playback it instead opens up a pop-up menu at the top left, which is super annoying.

I installed AutoHotKey and followed the instruction in this thread but without success. I doesn't work. Maybe because of a AHK syntax update?

[Coachz]

Originally Posted by timothys_monster

Hey there,

to make the use of Pro Tools and REAPER at the same time easier, I changed some shortcuts in REAPER to match the PT workflow.

Especially with daily tasks like scrolling and zooming my brain would just go nuts otherwise.

Now, I am on Windows 7 and since I use Alt + Mousewheel for zooming in REAPER it always focuses the menu bar when pressing Alt. So If I zoom and then want to press space bar for playback it instead opens up a pop-up menu at the top left, which is super annoying.

I installed AutoHotKey and followed the instruction in this thread but without success. I doesn't work. Maybe because of a AHK syntax update?

Preferences > General > Keyboard > Prevent the ALT key from focusing main menu

[timothys_monster]

Thank you, kind Sir!

I could have sworn I looked up the keyboard prefs before even considering an external script. Anyways... Thanks for clearing it up!

[grnprplOrngyllw]

thank you for this!!!