AutoHotkey Community

Hello. I was thinking about a neat idea for AutoHotkey. I use remote control software frequently for support issues, and it seems that AHK would be perfect for providing such functionality.

It would be very cool to see AHK include the ability to receive control commands via TCP or UDP and be able to capture screenshots to send to a remote client.

I suppose the following items would be needed:

TCP / UDP support (allow remote computer to connect to AHK and send control commands and/or scripts: RUN [scriptname] or actual AHK script language. (Secure, of course!)
Ability to authenticate remote user.
Ability to capture screen and send over network.
Ability to determine which parts of the screen have changed and only send those parts to reduce bandwidth.
Program to display the screenshots on remote machine and to interpret keyboard/mouse input and convert it to AHK commands and send over network to remote host.

AHK just seems suited to doing this since it is already able to simulate all the keyboard/mouse controls, and would simply need to be "stimulated" remotely to provide a user complete control over a PC.


Anyone else who is interested in this or who has input, please post here!

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RG

Hi,

because AHK is a scripting language it's slower than a compiled tool like VNC. If your work with some large text variables you will recognize this soon. I don't believe that Chris want to provide services like this. Even "simple" TCP oder UDP protocol support is much work. But Chris may have other reasons like this.

I think we will see his statement soon...

NiWi.

I'm open to the possibility. But since I don't know much about these areas, the assistance of an expert would likely be needed to make this a reality anytime in the next six months.

Perhaps such an expert will see this topic and offer some advice about: feasibility, complexity, code size, etc.

I would use this feature even if it didn't include a remapping of output. i.e., if all it did was let me control a remote computer's mouse and keyboard, i would find it very useful. I sit next to a computer that I don't use that much because I would have to lean over and use its keyboard/mouse.

1) [PSExec]
2) [Capture]
3) FTP/shared drives/directories

kobyashi - check out Synergy.
It lets you share the mouse, keyboard, and clipboard between multiple computers with different OS'es over the network. I often use it to use one mouse/keyboard between my windows and linux boxes. Easy to use and setup.

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Sounds like a KVM switch would work well in that situation...