AutoHotkey Community

A number of pages have been added to the Wiki:
http://www.autohotkey.com/wiki/index.ph ... ghlighting

The idea is to maintain current versions of Keywords, Functions, Variables, Command Names and Keys that used to be included with the AutoHotkey installer. By having installation scripts download these files from the Wiki they are easier to maintain and if written properly make it easier to update your current syntax files when new commands or keywords are added to AutoHotkey.

A simple function to download the pages from the Wiki is included, you can of course write your own.
The first installation script making use of these Wiki pages has been written (GreenPad) see wiki
(I will make one for UltraEdit 17+ and possibly look at some others as well)

The idea is to keep a page in the Wiki with a listing of as many editors as possible.

Feel free to discuss here or write and update installation scripts. If you do be sure to include them in the Wiki or post in this thread have yours added.

Happy X-Mas!

I've found not a single word about Syntax Highlighting for my lovely Notepad++ on the wiki page.
Is there one?

there are many if you search this forum. most are outdated now and don't support _L keywords. but a couple do.

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which is exactly the point of these Wiki, it is easy to download the latest keywords and use those for installation scripts.

I have taken the latest and greatest of the syntax files, and added the new ones from the latest release dated February 12, 2012 (it had a couple commands not listed yet on the wiki!), and have created a syntax highlighting word file for UltraEdit/UEStudio. This should work with all modern versions of UE/UEStudio, including the upcoming UE 18 (which I am beta testing.)

Because of changes to the way UltraEdit handles the syntax highlighting and changes of the file structure between UltraEdit 14 and 15, it is possible to create a syntax highlighting file that does not contain color information that will work with all the versions of UE, but I have not written a script in AHK that will do the conversion from the list of words. However, I have UE macros that help automate the task, and plan to write a "word file builder" for UltraEdit sometime in the future (a full GUI that allows you to insert word lists by copy/paste, and allows you to select features needed for that language, and other advanced building options.) I have already written a number of syntax tools for UE, including one that allows you to create color themes for UE, the one thing it was lacking before.

If you are a user of UltraEdit, as many people are, then you will want the new, up-to-date word file for AHK. The old one on their web site for download is only for the basic version of AHK, this one includes all of the _L information. It also corrects a number of logical errors in the old file that was introduced by a badly written conversion script.

The files are available for download from an attachment in the UltraEdit forum's, located here --> http://www.ultraedit.com/forums/viewtop ... =9&t=11988

I'm afraid neither the wiki and this thread received much attention.
I do like UE myself though, can't wait for v18 with the smart templates, something long overdue in my opinion given many other editors support this bundle/snippet method for quite a while now. Not many UE fans here on I think, mostly favour the free editors incl. scite4autohotkey
( smart template demo http://www.ultraedit.com/smart-templates-v18.html )

That's true. Most here like the freebie stuff. But a real programmer needs a real tool to do the job. AutoHotKey is a nice tool to have as a programmer, so a lot of UE users use AHK, but most of them, being real programmers, don't need the forums here for support it seems.

I've written and compiled my own assembly code for so long, I've never really used AHK before. Just started checking it out this week. Been meaning to for a while, but life is busy. Hey, I already know 12 programming languages so what's learning one more, right? Nice for a scripting language it seems, but for raw speed, I'll take the software I've been creating up til now over this. But for convenience? It's pretty nice.

Before UE15 using AHK+UE was a bit easier as AHK could see the various controls better, but it is still a nice addition to any editor, parsing+processing text/clipboard is very nice (and quicker to write in my opinion as a UE macro or UE (java)script).
Perhaps you'll find TF to be of interest http://www.autohotkey.net/~hugov/tf-lib.htm
(yes, it is slow, but also very flexible)

Not really interested in those, but I'm sure a lot of people would be. I already have better scripts for them in JavaScript and in PHP, which both run from inside UE as a tool.

I'm more interested in making tools that will allow UE to interact with other programs, like Firefox, when doing web development. That's the kind of thing that a UE macro or script doesn't handle, but an external program could serve both programs. Also looking to handle integrating the component palette in Delphi 2010 to automatically insert code into the appropriate file in UE.

Better browser <-> UE interaction would be welcomed, although FF doesn't play nice with ahk without seriously twisting its arm (IE & COM work well, for FF you will have to do a lot more work).
Feel free to keep us updated here or on the UE forum!