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Too much paperwork. 
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Oh sheet! I was looking forward to that!
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Clearly a workload in-crease.
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It was so popular that those in the back had to crane their necks to see!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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I'm sure I would have made the cut.
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My Google-fu is failing me. The problem (I think) is easy to describe, but not to Google, apparently.
Does anyone know of a really simple tool that can simulate a key being held down...and--this is important in this context--can easily be toggled on and off?
My reason for asking: I have a game that often requires me to walk in what is essentially a straight line in some direction for quite some distance, and I have to press and hold down the 'walk' button ("W" in this case; the game's using the standard "WASD" arrangement) for minutes at a time. This often gets tedious, and so every once in a while I take a small but heavy object and try to balance it carefully on the key that needs to be held down...then while my character is moving on his own, I can do something else on another computer I have sitting next to me for a moment or two.
The problem is the "carefully balancing the object on the key" part. So I'm looking for a software solution. Ideally a one-key toggle, as in, "when I press this key (or key combination), simulate holding down this other button"...then press it again to "release" the button.
Of course I don't want something that needs me to alt-tab out of the game and back.
This is totally a first-world problem...but a solution would help remove one of the more tedious elements of this game. After all, I play to take some drudgery out of my life, not add to it...
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I use a Biro cap:
In place[^]
Result[^]
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wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
I have just tested and verified this method. Simple but effective.
(Also may have broke CP)
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That's...not a bad idea. I'll have to give it a shot. As long as it doesn't take me a minute every time I need to put it in place, I'm happy.
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I expected you to come up with a 3d printed widget that could slide a poker across the keyboard with a vertically adjustment on the legs and the poker.
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RAH
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That'd need servo motors, controllers, a Pi, and a IoT interface to an iPhone app ...
Some might call that a touch of overkill. 
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 I did not get that far, I'm too old school as my first thought was a wooden widget using adjustment by screw fittings - you know manual adjustment.
However your improved widget should raise thousands if put up on one of the fund me sites.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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And then your character gets stuck on a pixel somewhere. 
I'd rather be phishing!
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How are you enjoying "Death Stranding"?
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I was thinking you could maybe run a program that registers a system-wide hotkey (assuming Windows here, since you didn't mention).
Then, when you hit the Ctrl-Alt-Shift-W or whatever the program would do keypresses (SendKey Windows KeyPress for 'w') foryou.
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Just found this...C# Global Keyboard Hotkeys not working in game fullscreen[^]
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However, if the game is full-screen I don't think it'll respect the system-wide hotkey. I'm not sure.
If it doesn't then you would have to do this with hardware.
Hardware Solution
This can be done very easily with a Arduino Leonardo (aka Pro Micro) because you plug one of those into a system running any OS (Linux, Win, Mac) and it will be recognized as a keyboard (it has built-in USB HID and is recognized as a keyboard.
You can get one for $7 USD (Amazon.com: FTCBlock Pro Micro ATmega32U4 5V/16MHz Module Boardc[^])
Then, it is a very simple matter of wiring up two buttons and a little code on the Arduino so when you hit one button, it continually types 'w' and then when you hit the other it stops.
If you have to go the hardware route, and you really want to try it I am happy to give a lending hand.
However, I understand that this is more extensive.
Good luck.
modified 28-Feb-20 10:32am.
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dandy72 wrote: I play to take some drudgery out of my life, not add to it...
Doesn't sound like you're succeeding... 
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That's why I'm looking for this solution.
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OH - ooops - I read that as "Stimulate".
Never mind.
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You could probably do this very easily using AutoHotKey: Google
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That kinda looks promising - thanks.
Although the more I think about it, the more I'm convincing myself I just need to find a more convenient "small but heavy" object. Sometimes you shouldn't overthink these things...
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Which game? Most of them have an option for it, check under keybindings. In Wow and FFXIV you press the mouse-wheel for autorun.
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GTA Online.  I'm getting tired of having the game tell me I need to travel all the way to the opposite end of the map. Sometimes that takes minutes.
I'd be surprised if it supported that, as it might be considered "cheating"...somehow...
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Most games I know have some auto-run feature, but never played GTA. A quick Google indicates it is not supported, but still a desired feature.
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I never used it but a friend of mine had a gamer mouse where you could save macros. He did something like "click in this button, run 10 minutes" or "click that button, do action 100 times in a row" or things like that. The mouse was called something like "nostromo?"
This was around 8 years ago, I suppose nowadays should be easier to find something similar.
Not sure if the game must be "compatible" though.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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