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Hello all,

I had problems to understand the class library found here in the forum Class Wish List so I thougt that I invest some time to make another one:

The library Jimulation.ahk is the only file needed to use it.

Jimulation.ahk

A demo that include a class for cars and the demonstration of it
and a browser-class that can be used to open a url either in the default browser or in firefox
can be found here: Jimulation_demo.ahk

The library is (hopefully) good documented but here I show some aspects of it twice:

it gives in jimulation.ahk only one main function that is used to create classes:





It exist helper functions - you can say shortcuts for the commands that are understood by the class function:



















Hope this is interesting for someone

Following code is a base for a one-function class:

• %this%_{name} is the variable name from this object instance
• out is the variable to give a method a return value
• class is the name of the class used for calling the method wanted

and for the new-method is a return value forbidden, because the value from this is in the return variable before new is called

Each subroutine is a method for the named.

So if you have a function after this model named car and it has for example following subroutines:

• car_new param: name,speed
• car_break
• car_name

when a demo programm can use this code:


a demo can downloaded from this url: oop.ahk

This class-style is similar to the one used by python in new-style classes :


in python the self parameter (in my autohotkey script is the var named this) is implicit given to the class-method so you must only write following code to make a car:



the mycar.break() is in reality following code: car(mycar).break()
And with my template you write in Autohotkey: car(mycar,"break")

I post this because I want some views from others about oop in autohotkey.

Cu all

Thanks for your effort. Much appreciated. Lets hope this is of use for some geeks out there! Stay tuned.