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AHK comes with a utility named Window Spy that helps in the task of discovering active windows and window classes, to ease the development of scripts.
The integration into Windows is really wonderful.Just think it - and it takes 5 seconds to add to your AHK script. It is so simple to create new keyboard/mouse shortcuts.This makes working on a Windows computer much more bearable, just the knowledge of AHK being there to help with any need gives me a feeling of power.ĪHK is great in many ways, here is an incomplete list of things I especially like about it: I will definitely be on the lookout from now on for things to automate. The playability and customizability of AHK is nearly infinite - the forums are bursting with useful scripts and ideas. This amazing little utility saves a lot of time. If inside a cmd shell, "cd" to that directory. If I'm already in a Explorer, it jumps to the directory without opening a new one. A click on one, opens a new Windows Explorer in that directory. In any window, a shortcut of keyboard+mouse opens a popup menu with a list of the directories I defined as favorite. This helps me manage RSI of holding the SHIFT all the time. Remapping the keys to ( and ), respectively, only when in the SciTE editor editing Lisp files.Useful shortcuts for working in Windows Explorer: a hotkey to create a new text file, one to create a new directory, and one to open "cmd" inside the directory that is currently explored.I played with AHK for a couple of days, and already have the following utilities in my arsenal: Under the hood, you discover an amazingly powerful wrapper of the Win32 API - enabling to write Windows GUI applications (or front-ends to applications) is no time, with very little programming knowledge. Alleviate RSI with substitutes for Alt-Tab (using keys, mouse wheel, or buttons).īut AHK is more than this.Remap keys and buttons on your keyboard, joystick, and mouse.For example, typing "btw" can automatically produce "by the way". Expand abbreviations as you type them.Virtually any key, button, or combination can become a hotkey. Create hotkeys for keyboard, joystick, and mouse.You can write a mouse or keyboard macro by hand or use the macro recorder. Automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks.This is the "hotkey" ability which makes it most popular:
Its most powerful and salient feature is an excellent ability to hook onto events of the Windows OS - most notably keystrokes and mouse clicks and movements. There are several aborted and still existing IDE projects in the forums, among those AHKIDE (aborted), Ahk_Ide_v3 (aborted), SmartDevelop and ChameleonCoder + AHKModule.Software & Tools AutoHotKey (called AHK by its fans) is a scripting language, very tightly integrated with Windows. Notepad2-mod has added syntax highlighting support for AutoHotkey (and other languages).
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Notepad++ can highlight AutoHotkey syntax and do code folding with the plugin presented in this forum-thread.
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It is based on Scite, but has a lot of custom additions, including of course syntax highlighting for AutoHotkey, and many tools presented in this series are already integrated. The most popular editor is Scite4AutoHotkey, which is almost a real full-blown IDE for AutoHotkey. You can have a lot more comfort with other editors. You can, as mentioned when writing your first script, use any editor for AutoHotkey. You might want to check them out later when writing large scripts. This might not interest you now if you’re just starting with AutoHotkey, scripting and programming. Throughout this book, we will have a short look at some useful tools & scripts for developing AutoHotkey. Useful tools: AutoHotkey editors Useful tools
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