✅ | Use of ticker to detect specific or whatever input

[keen solar]

I would like to do some stuff like disable layouts after pressing some keys

[rocky pine]

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[rocky pine]

Antes de seguir: ¿prefieres que te responda en español 🇪🇸? 🙂

That issue could be related to this bug: FancyMenu may not respect remapped modifier keys on macOS, if you’re using remapped Ctrl/Command keys, key detection can behave oddly.

For what you want, don’t use a Ticker if you can avoid it.
The better option is a Listener:

• Use On Keyboard Key Pressed
• Check the listener variables like $$key_name or $$key_keycode
• Then run actions like Disable Layout, Enable Layout, or Toggle Layout

Example idea:

• Listener: On Keyboard Key Pressed
• IF $$key_name equals your key
• Action: disable_layout with the layout name

If you want to toggle a layout with a key, that is usually the cleanest way.

If you want, I can give you a tiny step-by-step setup for:

1. one key disables a layout
2. one key toggles a layout
3. multiple keys with different actions

[keen solar]

i dont get how to modify the listener condition xD

[rocky pine]

No worries 😄

In FancyMenu, the listener does not have a separate “condition” switch.
The condition goes inside the listener’s action script.

Do this:

1. Open Customization -> Manage Listeners
2. Edit your On Keyboard Key Pressed listener
3. Open its Action Script
4. Add an IF Statement
5. Add a requirement inside it:
   • use Is Text if you want to check $$key_name
   • use Is Number if you want to check $$key_keycode
6. Put the action you want inside the IF block, for example:
   • disable_layout → my_layout

Simple example:

• IF $$key_name equals F7
• then run disable_layout for my_layout

Important ⚠️
On Keyboard Key Pressed repeats while the key is held down, so if you want a single trigger per press, On Keyboard Key Released is often safer.

If you want, tell me:

• the key you want to detect
• the layout name you want to disable

and I’ll write the exact listener setup for you 👌

[keen solar]

Tecla enter, los layouts funcionan

[rocky pine]

Sí, claro 😄

Para la tecla Enter, hazlo así:

1. Ve a Customization -> Manage Listeners
2. Abre tu listener de On Keyboard Key Pressed
   • mejor aún: On Keyboard Key Released para que no se repita mientras mantienes la tecla
3. En su Action Script, añade un IF Statement
4. Dentro del IF, pon esta condición:
   • Requirement: Is Text
   • Text: $$key_name
   • Compare with: Enter
5. Dentro del IF, añade la acción:
   • disable_layout
   • valor: el nombre exacto de tu layout

Si quieres activar/desactivar con Enter en vez de solo desactivar, usa:

• toggle_layout en lugar de disable_layout

Si Enter no te lo detecta por nombre, usa $$key_keycode en vez de $$key_name y selecciona la tecla Enter desde el selector del requisito ⚠️

Si quieres, te lo escribo en formato “árbol” exacto de cómo debe quedar en el editor 👌