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Autohotkey has not been updated for a while. Last update was 25 Sept. 2009.
Seems that it is going to fade. The forum is still active so why don´t we
invite them to join the PB speedboat
cw

Rumors can kill.

Maybe there isn't anything that needs updating?

AutoHotkey is a scripting language with a very specific use. Despite what its users may think, it's not designed to be a full blown programming language.

"A language with a very specific use" is so quickly said lately maybe because it is so correctly right to say even in
cases where it does not apply. Or maybe some people just love to say the obvious for a specific reason

I mean do you really think that this is "A language for a specific use"

* Automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks. You can write a mouse or keyboard macro by hand
or use the macro recorder.
* Create hotkeys for keyboard, joystick, and mouse. Virtually any key, button, or combination can become a hotkey.
* Expand abbreviations as you type them. For example, typing "btw" can automatically produce "by the way".
* Create custom data-entry forms, user interfaces, and menu bars. See GUI for details.
* Remap keys and buttons on your keyboard, joystick, and mouse.
* Respond to signals from hand-held remote controls via the WinLIRC client script.
* Run existing AutoIt v2 scripts and enhance them with new capabilities.
* Convert any script into an EXE file that can be run on computers that don't have AutoHotkey installed.

There are dozens of scripting languages out there to automate your keyboard and mouse input,
even all those macro languages. Autohotkey certainly is not different nor does it add something.

The point that I meant is that anything you can do with autohotkey you can do with pb
- only 10 times better and faster plus a truckload more !

The thing with autohotkey is that after a while, you get fed up with dealing with an interpreter, all those
work arounds, everytime looking for a dll for something that is not possible with autohotkey, etc etc.
I am certain that a lot of autohotkey users for those reasons are ready to move on to pb and those should
be invited to make this community grow.
greetings
cw

With a bit of work, you can enhance this to what you want

Greetings
Thomas

Thanks Thomas

I´ll add this lib to my collection
cw

i am a member there with the same name

i raised this question in the ahk forum

they said = go for other forks of ahk like ahk_l build

codewalker wrote:There are dozens of scripting languages out there to automate your keyboard and mouse input,
even all those macro languages.

Heh, my A4 Tech X7 mouse has built-in 64KB of non-volatile memory that you can store scripts in,
so I could in theory write scripts that typed "PureBasic" whenever I hit a particular button on it and it would "type" it at the specified speed intervals etc.
Coolest thing is that no special drivers are needed and you can lug it around to other computers etc. and just plug it in, very cool.

codewalker wrote: The point that I meant is that anything you can do with autohotkey you can do with pb
- only 10 times better and faster plus a truckload more !

Good luck

I tried to do some things in PB (example: scripting tool), but there so many (!) ways to simulate key presses, and each example I have seen so far for PB will work only in certain environments (Windows versions and programs) but NOT universally.

I still "need" Autohotkey, because it seems to work within every program.

Michael

codewalker wrote::
Autohotkey has not been updated for a while. Last update was 25 Sept. 2009.

Because autoit is better