AutoHotkey Community

[Jon]

Hi, I thought it would be interesting to find out how people heard about autohotkey so I've decided to start a poll.


I found it at download.com about a year ago when it was rated the best freeware one week and decided to read though the help manual (which I never normally do with software). I had recently started trying to analyse hijackthis logs and found that I could makes scripts to speed up the process of analysing these logs and posted a program made with autohotkey on my website and a security forum. I've been updating that program ever since and have now made several others. Through developing scripts for that purpose I got very familiar with the language and I'm now always making scripts to speed up the process of tedious computer tasks, to replicate the functions of paid-for programs or to perform functions that I am unable to find a peice of software that will do it.

[Laszlo]

I read about it in the c't magazine, which is quite unusual for a Hungarian living in Pittsburgh. My only complaint is that I receive my c't 3 to 4 weeks after it appears. Even with this slow delivery and 2-3 missing issues a year it costs 5 times as much as the PC magazine in English. But it is worth it. For the c't magazine alone it pays learning some German, nicht war?

[corrupt]

I heard about AutoHotkey at Programmer's Haven.

[CarlosTheTackle]

You need another option in that poll: "Can't remember".

I know I discovered it online, probably a message board somewhere, but I can't for the life of me remember where.

I can remember that I downloaded it and didn't use it for ages as I had nothing to use it for - but once you start, you just can't stop, handy little bugger that it is.

[jonny]

I found AutoIt3 first, but in an in-depth search for resources on it, I came across AutoHotkey and found it much more to my liking. 'Nother website for me, I guess.

[ranomore]

I googled it. I'm not sure anymore the keywords I used, but what a find!

[savage]

I stumbled on it on download.com as well. I consider seeing that #1 freeware link one of the luckiest things that's ever happened to me in terms of software.
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[BoBo]

I've found it as I've followed a discussion at the AU3 Forum. Unfortunately some people there are not really happy that AHK attracts more and more people because of its simple syntax ...

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Lazlo wrote:

[SanskritFritz]

I have read first about AHK on the Total Commander forum in a post by Lesmo16:
http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=51742#51742
Later the user Icfu and me had an extensive conversation about AHK:
http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=6891
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[Rajat]

BoBo said it for me too!
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[Atomhrt]

I'm always investigating scripting and programming tools, so one day while I was looking at one my usual places on the net, there was a name next to Autoit, and it was Autohotkey. I go hummm, I'd better check this out. And the rest is history.

Oh, one thing that has always bothered me a *small* bit. The name Autohotkey does not do it justice. When I first looked at the name and a read a small discription, I thought it was all about using hotkeys like so many other utils. But, as we all know it's much more than that...
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[Chris]

[Tekl]

Hi,

at the time I found AutoHotkey it could not be found in google. I found it at google-groups.

Tekl

[niwi]

Hi,

I found AHK at the ct magazine, but at almost the same time I found AutoIt v3. I compared them both and now I'm here

NiWi.

[SanskritFritz]

My dream is AutoHotkey power with AutoIt3 syntax.
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