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Anybody developed an approach to developing different AHK scripts using different AHK versions. If I need to update an old script that I use in compiled form, I often prefer to execute the script using the original AHK version to avoid introducing unexpected problems. Has anyone found a good method for do this?

Thanks,
TL

continue with your practice of using old ahk

Do you still have the original source code or only the compiled executable?

If its just the executable then I doubt this is possible

If you have the source code then it will be possible to update it
Im not aware of a script that will search through your code and update it
So you'll have to do so manually
The easiest way is to attempt to run it and goto were the error alerts tell you

you can extract the source code from your exe if needed, but I don't think that is your question.

many (but not all) Old exes are Archived here: http://www.autohotkey.net/#archives


Chris tries very hard to make sure scripts are not broken by updates.

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Sorry about the confusion. It is clear that I wasn't very clear about the problem I'm trying to solve.

I would like to have some of my scripts run with an old version of AHK and some run with new versions. Can I have multiple versions of AHK installed at the same time? If so, how can I specify which version I would like to have run a particular script?

TL

This is an example with two versions of Autohotkey, say v1 and v2.
Install the v1 in a folder c:\...\v1folder
Install the v2 in a folder c:\...\v2folder

Then, launch Autohotkey.exe with the script name as argument. You can use batch files (.bat) to start your scripts, where you put the following:
c:\...\v1folder\autohotkey.exe path_to_my_script_that_needs_autohotkeyv1.ahk

c:\...\v2folder\autohotkey.exe path_to_my_script_that_needs_autohotkeyv2.ahk

Hope I'm clear enough