To send key press or release event to a ahk window?

[vfptr]

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I want to simulate long press event by sending keys release or press event to a not activated window. I did not find any way to do this in AHK.Window class.

[spyoungtech]

The way you do this is through the send method of the Window class. Doing a long press works the same way as described in the docs describing Repeating or Holding Down a Key. (these features also work with ControlSend, which is the underlying functionality of Window.send).

For example, the AutoHotkey documentation provides:

Send {Up down}  ; Presses down the up-arrow key.
Sleep 1000  ; Keeps it down for one second.
Send {Up up}  ; Releases the up-arrow key.

Using the wrapper, the equivalent doing what you want to a window that is not active:

win = ahk.win_get(title='my window')
win.send('{Up down}')
time.sleep(1)
win.send('{Up up}')

Keep in mind, some windows (especially games) may simply not accept input at all while the window is not active.