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garath · Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 372 Location: germany

You have the link, ask Valik about it, I never read any sources, sorry.

P.S. who are you?

Thalon · Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 640

The syntax of the commands hasn't much to do with the functionality in the background...

After all stopped kidding: Could we return to the topic?
Maybe "Guest" could start to answer my questions?

Es ist immer wieder erstaunlich wie viele Leute hier doch deutschsprachig sind. Würden alle Deutschen sich im de-Forum treffen würde da der Bär steppen und hier tote Hose sein Very Happy

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PhiLho · Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:44 pm Post subject:

AGU · Guest

As this is s.th between Jon and Chris I gave up on arguing with any AutoIt people. As far as I know the facts, all was/is correct.

Maybe it's time to write down this story for everyone to read and put it inside the wiki article about Autohotkey so all misinformed (whiny Wink

) fellas can study the facts and we could stop arguing with this people.

Some facts from within this thread:

majkinetor · Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 3592 Location: Belgrade

rick(a)rick-davis.com · Guest

I absolutely love AutoIt, I have not run into anything that could not be done using AutoIt (in combination with other free commandline utilities). I wrote a program that was at least 1000 lines of code, in 4 core files & hundreds of supplementary files (patch installers). This program would connect to remote computers, scan for missing windows patches, download the missing patches from servers, and then install the missing patches, and upload error & run logs back to the server. I have never used AutoHotKey, but I'll be making myself learn it. The main things that made me use AutoIt in the first place were: Excellent script editor (scite), Scite's Tidy application to clean up your code, ability to compile to exe, and ability to include files (AutoIt command FileInstall).

So far, I haven't seen a recommended editor for AutoHotKey, I really like the Scite Editor, it reminds me a real IDE. I don't think I would have been able to write such a large program with AutoIt if I didn't have Scite. Do any of the users have recommendations for an editor?

Is there anything available to help you "tidy" up your AutoHotKey code?

I read somewhere that you can compile AutoHotKey scripts to EXE, but can you include files in it?

toralf · Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 3842 Location: Bremen, Germany

recommended editors:
- Scite (see PhiLho Scite works in the script forum)
- PSPad (see my installer for syntax highlightning in the script forum)

AHK scripts can be compiled. E.g. from within PSPad with Ctrl+F9. Or using ahk2exe directly.

You can include file with FileInstall (same command)

To tidy up your code, you could use my Auto-Syntax-Tidy script. (see script forum)

Currently I'm coding a toolbar for editors (see script forum). With such a toolbar several tools can be easily started, thus the editor will become closer to an IDE like environment.
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majkinetor · Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 3592 Location: Belgrade

I use EditPlus. It is extremely fast (I compare it execution speed to Notepad), have column select, regular exp, function definition via reg exp so you can use errors reported to jump to lines of code that contain them, bookmars, function lists and much much more.

The only thing it doesn't have is outlining. This is much needed....
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moorpipe · Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 19

majkinetor · Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 3592 Location: Belgrade

2.30 ???
The latest version is 2.21*
You say that outlining is implemented in 2.30 beta ?
Where can I find that version ?
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moorpipe · Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 19

Beta releases are available for beta testers only. They can be downloaded from http://www.editplus.com/beta/beta-en.html which is password protected. To become a betatester and get a password, you must be a registered user of the current version and apply here: http://www.editplus.com/betainfo.html
But remember "ignorance is a bliss, but horror to those informed". Now, who said that Wink

majkinetor · Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 3592 Location: Belgrade

Ah.. forget that.
I use cracked version.

Author wasn't very responsive for user wishes anyway, so I didn't get the feeling that I should pay it. I wrote him number of times, but I just got bot messages in return. I had this feeling once, for Total Commander, but after meeting its author, Ghisler, it suddenly fade away....

You can send me the beta on e-mail if you want, I wont mind Smile

But remember "ignorance is bliss, but horror to those informed".
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user · Joined: 05 Oct 2006 Posts: 423

I want a comparison table of autoit and autohotkey

(just like one of those in wikipedia for other kind of software)

BoBo · Guest

Guest · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 6:54 pm Post subject:

I think that in the battle of AutoIt versus AutoHotkey, AutoIt beats AHK with miles to spare. I believe that most people who get their ass flamed in the AutoIt community forums go to AHK, and because it is not the other way around AutoIt is the better scripting language. AHK feels more related to AutoIt, it's like sucking up with the boss. AutoIt simply has more functionality, more examples and better documentation. The only drawback to it, and that is what causes people to choose AHK, is the community. Then again, if you are self-sufficient, AutoIt has to be your choice.