So you’ve downloaded Autohotkey and are writing all kinds of automation scripts to help you out during the day at work. But what about home? You can setup routines to help you out there as well. I have several setup for email signatures, shortcuts for my home PC, etc. To make juggling your Autohotkey scripts [...]
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So hopefully this week I’ve provided you with a few ideas to get you started with Autohotkey! Here are a few more links to help you… Autohotkey Autohotkey: http://www.autohotkey.com/ Quick start: http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Tutorial.htm Sample scripts: http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/scripts/index.htm Similar tools: Texter IronAHK (Autohotkey for .net/Mono) More resources: Lifehacker has quite a few Autohotkey related posts as does Wikipedia [...]
So last session we looked at using the clipboard. Today we’ll explore using Autohotkey to launch applications and build a very simple GUI. I’m always amazed at the effort people go through to launch applications. Desktops full of icons, long Start menus, quick launch bars full of icons. All those take an amazing amount of [...]
So now we have Autohotkey installed and have learned to do some basic text manipulation. Next we will explore how we can use Autohotkey to manipulate existing text by using the clipboard. Remember in our previous example how we used Autohotkey to go UP and LEFT to position our cursor? Since Autohotkey can press keys [...]
One of Autohotkeys most basic uses is text replacement or manipulation. Here is one I use daily to insert date/comment in my code: :*:;cmt:: FormatTime, TimeString, ShortDate SendInput, %TimeString% – Jim Priest – priestj@niehs.nih.gov return So now when I’m in my text editor I simply type ;cmt and it inserts the date time and my [...]