Bind key for different tap or hold function?

[TheChill]

Is it possible to bind a key so that it fires off one keystroke when it is held for some duration, but fires off a different keystroke if it is simply tapped?

 

If it is possible, how would it be implemented?

[hastegag]

not yet, not sure this is planned either. AHK (AutoHotKey) can do it for you. What I use in Photoshop to use the bottom macro keys like a more blunt instrument set of arrowkeys, is basically what you described I think. In the below, a function dates a 'rate', a higher amount and a lower and a keypress to repeat, but you could use a similar approach of determining how long it has been since the same key was pressed to do something completely different

 

functionalizedRepeater(rate:=300,amountFull:=32,amountLesser:=8,keyPressedToRepeat:="Up")
{
if (A_TimeSincePriorHotkey < rate && (A_PriorHotkey = A_ThisHotkey))
{
	Send ^+{%keyPressedToRepeat% %amountFull%}
}
else {
              ;this is where you could do somethign entirely different...this is just for example
	Send ^+{%keyPressedToRepeat% %amountLesser%}
}
return
}
^SC0D2::
;Control G18 for me, your hotkey above could be any keyboard key like a or b or whatever
profile := getCurProfile()
if(profile == "Photoshop"){
	functionalizedRepeater(300,32,8,"Right")
}
return