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first of all i would like to thanks all our members for quick responses...i want one favour from all of you regarding the posted topic........

maybe in fewdays i have to tell my supervisor that which tool is better to use to automate a GUI application...from my point of view i think autohotkey is far better than finalbuilder and autoit

So is it possible for you people to post the advantages and disadvantages of FinalBuilder,AutoIt and Autohotkey so tht i can convince my supervisor to develop the application in Autohotkey

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Leef_me · Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 9:04 am Post subject:

Guest · Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 9:13 am Post subject:

yes you are right because with finalbuilder we cant execute a file from command prompt, also their are not many functions like autohotkey like clicking,imagesearch,.....etc.

so is Autohotkey better than Autoit because i see that mostly all library functions are same but there must be something which makes autohotkey better than autoit

doyle · Joined: 14 Nov 2007 Posts: 325 Location: London, England

AutoHotkey seems far more accessible.

Ive looked into AutoIt, and didnt like it.

The manual for AHK is a work of art imo.

Guest · Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 9:41 am Post subject:

even i think in the same way....well do you have any idea that whether it will be the same if use it on Windows 7???

doyle · Joined: 14 Nov 2007 Posts: 325 Location: London, England

More or less. Yes.

Guest · Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 9:50 am Post subject:

ok thanks lets see how it works maybe i will try it out on someones pc where windows7 is installed

Guest · Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 9:54 am Post subject:

well in general chat section i found few postings regarding its compatability with windows 7 and the good news is that its working on windows 7...well i will try more to make it more clear

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jethrow · Joined: 24 May 2009 Posts: 1907 Location: Iowa, USA

I was thinking about switching to AutoIt, then Lexikos released AutoHotkey_L with object support. Now, IMO, AHK is much better than AutoIt.
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tank · Joined: 21 Dec 2007 Posts: 3700 Location: Louisville KY USA

majkinetor · Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 4511 Location: Belgrade

I couldn't agree more.
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wiseley · Joined: 22 Apr 2009 Posts: 29

To mine opinion, there is no match to ahk at this moment.

AHKnow · Joined: 03 Jul 2004 Posts: 121

AutoHotkey is unmatched and has about won the "war" over AutoIT, though it was really just a quasi-war over preferences, in the first place.

IronAHK blows the doors off. It is like bringing out a nuke in WW2. AutoHotkey as .NET/Mono and running on Windows or Linux is just crazy.

The only place you can go after that, is to go codeless and visual. That language is Limnor.

Limnor , http://www.limnor.com/ , has a new version out that works with Visual Studio. It allows you to create C# programs with almost no coding and visually.

I think IronAHK (automation orientated) and Limnor (plays nice with databases among other things) compliment each other tremendously as .NET languages and create some very interesting possibilities.

KingIrish · Joined: 16 Mar 2010 Posts: 2 Location: Minco, Oklahoma

I'm actually rather completely new to AHK but I was into AutoIT a while back. The script language was concentrated heavily on Windows XP. None of my Vista using friends could run any scripts I compiled and sent. When I upgraded to Windows 7 recently I found myself without a quick and handy little script tool which doesn't take much to learn and is rather self commenting.

Hence, me switching to AutoHotKeys once I heard about it. I would recommend AHK for your project, simply because it's more versatile.