Identify keypress combinations / Pass through keypresses

[tom.luft]

Is it possible to distinguish single keypresses from keypress combinations?
I know one can catch e.g. {LWin+D} but I want to achieve that my macro only reacts on {LWin} but not on any combinations like {LWin+D}, {LWin+R} etc.
I basically want to make my WIn 8 usable by replacing the Windows' button metro surface with Launchy so I can quickly launch applications without switching to this unconvenient, mouse unfriendly, happy-birthday-colored nightmare of squares whilst keeping all those handy combinations* intact.

*mainly +D, +R, +L, +Break

[tom.luft]

Ok so I figured it out by using a trick with a timer and auto-repeating to create KeyUp-Events (using a script from here).
If a combination with the Windows key is pressed, I just disable the macro starting Launchy.

My only problem now is passing those combinations through. I tried emulating the keypresses with {eg.event.suffix} as key, but it didn't work. Any suggestions?

The code is as follows: (note that I use {Ctrl+Alt+Page Up} to start Launchy)

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<Folder Name="Metro Killer" Expanded="True">
        <Macro Name="Deactivate Launchy start" Expanded="True">
            <Event Name="Keyboard.LWin+D" />
            <Event Name="Keyboard.LWin+L" />
            <Event Name="Keyboard.LWin+E" />
            <Event Name="Keyboard.LWin+R" />
            <Event Name="Keyboard.LWin+Pause" />
            <Event Name="Keyboard.LWin+F" />
            <Action Enabled="False">
                Window.SendKeys(u'{eg.event.suffix}', False)
            </Action>
            <Action>
                EventGhost.DisableItem(XmlIdLink(40))
            </Action>
            <Action>
                EventGhost.ShowOSD(u'{eg.event.suffix}', u'0;-24;0;0;0;700;0;0;0;1;0;0;2;32;Arial', (255, 255, 255), (0, 0, 0), 0, (0, 0), 0, 3.0, False)
            </Action>
        </Macro>
        <Macro Name="Create Key Up-Events" Expanded="True">
            <Event Name="Keyboard.LWin" />
            <Action>
                EventGhost.PythonCommand(u'eg.plugins.Timer.TimerAction(u\'KeyUp\', 0, 1, 0.15, eg.event.suffix+"_up", False, True, 1, u\'00:00:00\')')
            </Action>
            <Action>
                EventGhost.AutoRepeat(0.10000000000000001, 0.10000000000000001, 0.10000000000000001, 3.0)
            </Action>
            <Action>
                EventGhost.EnableItem(XmlIdLink(40))
            </Action>
        </Macro>
        <Macro Name="Start Launchy" id="40" Expanded="True">
            <Event Name="Timer.LWin_up" />
            <Action>
                Window.SendKeys(u'{Ctrl+Alt+PageUp}', False)
            </Action>
        </Macro>
    </Folder>

[tom.luft]

I just added a small python script and now it works:

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buttons = eg.event.suffix
eg.winkey_combination = '{'+buttons+'}'

I then used this variable (eg.winkey_combination) for the keystroke emulation.