While working on my mScrub plugin to add new features and do some code cleanup I stumbled upon the need to get whatever hotkey the user assigns to the macro since in the current version it’s hard coded to use the Spacebar.
I did some research but couldn’t find a native way to do it with Maxscript so I ended up writing my own. I’ve tested it in 2014 and 2015 which use XML keyboard files. I’ve put .NET XML classes into play with a XPath query.
Since I’m also relying on .NET to check what keys are pressed, I’ve decided to return a System.Windows.Input.Key object instead of the virtual key (integer), but this is easy to convert back.
If you have any other way to do this, I would love to hear about it! Just leave it in the comments.
fn getMacroScriptHotkey macroName = ( keyInterop = dotNetClass "System.Windows.Input.KeyInterop" kbdFile = actionMan.getKeyboardFile() xmlDoc = dotNetObject "System.XML.XMLDocument" xmlDoc.load kbdFile root = xmlDoc.selectNodes ("//shortcut[contains(@actionID,'" + macroName + "')]") if root.count == 1 then ( xmlNode = root.itemOf[0] virtualKey = xmlNode.Attributes.ItemOf["accleleratorKey"].Value as integer return (keyInterop.keyFromVirtualKey virtualKey) ) else return undefined )
And you can use it like this, also included is how to convert back to a virtual key using KeyInterop class.
hotKey = getMacroScriptHotkey "mScrub" keyInterop = dotNetClass "System.Windows.Input.KeyInterop" keyInterop.VirtualKeyFromKey hotKey
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