Comments on: Automate Windows Tasks with AutoHotkey

By: Yulu

Yulu — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 04:15:11 +0000

I can see I’ll be using this instead of laborious copy and paste for certain snippets. Right on.

By: Shane

Shane — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:35:40 +0000

Autohotkey is simply awesome. I’ve started scripting with it recently and it’s amazing what you can do. If you want to write your own Autohotkey scripts, I suggest you start with their examples:

http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/scripts/index.htm

By: Sonia

Sonia — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:31:48 +0000

Several tasks can be defined inside one ahk file. You don’t have to have one script file per task. For example, the three following tasks can be in one ahk file:

^y::run http://www.yahoo.com
^g::run http://www.google.com
^e::exit

So, pressing the hotkey ‘ctrl+y’ will launch Yahoo, pressing the hotkey ‘ctrl+g’ will launch Google and pressing the hotkey ‘ctrl+e’ will terminate the script.

It is a very simple yet useful example. I tested with success ahk files with more than 100 tasks. Of course with so many tasks you could have to use an Enterpad because it is not practical to remember all the hotkeys.

Sonia