[AutoHotkey Programming Tools] + Featured Scripts
Posted: 17 Apr 2014, 19:01
AutoHotkey Programming Tools
The following are some useful user-contributed tools to facilitate the use of AutoHotkey.
Quick tools
CodeQuickTester :
More info here : http://ahkscript.org/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6113
Macro Creator : Need to quickly automate some things? This is a recommended for beginners.
Get it here : http://ahkscript.org/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=143
GUI Buildeer Deluxe: Build a GUI in the press of 1 button.
https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12830
WMI Code Creator :
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8572
AHK Code indenter/prettify : (Online/Offline)
https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=8678
MagicBox Factory :
https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=20983
Editors
SciTE4AutoHotkey : A SciTE-based AutoHotkey script editor.
Get it here : http://ahkscript.org/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=62
AHK Studio : Another great editor for AutoHotkey programming.
Get it here : http://ahkscript.org/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=300
Adventure IDE : A general-purpose IDE and lightweight text editor for Windows.
Get it here : viewtopic.php?f=64&t=89901
Notepad++ : A great, free and generic source code editor.
How to set up : http://ahkscript.org/boards/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=50
Sublime Text : A really cool editor known for its slick user interface and features. It can be evaluated for free.
How to set up : http://ahkscript.org/boards/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=88
Visual Studio Code : Microsoft's newer, fast and versatile code editor, extensible with plugins
Download and info: https://code.visualstudio.com/
AutoHotkey Plus (extension) Project page: https://github.com/cweijan/vscode-autohotkey
Plugin page: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=cweijan.vscode-autohotkey-plus
EverEdit: A payware (there's a 30 day trial) editor with ahk support, code snippets and much more. Sort of a cross between notepad++ and sublime.
http://www.everedit.net/index.php
GUI Creators
SmartGUI Creator : Here's an easy point-n-click GUI (user interface) creator!... You just draw a user interface the way you like and a script will be generated.
Original Forum topic : https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/738-smartgui-creator/
Download (updated version [v4.3.29.7]) : https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/96299-smartguixp-mod-v43297-by-drugwash/
drugwash's releases : https://my.cloudme.com/#drugwash/mytools/SmartGUICreatorMod
GUI Creator : Simpler and easier to creating GUIs in AutoHotkey.
Get it Here: http://ahkscript.org/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=303
Auto-GUI : Windows form designer for AutoHotkey.
Get it here : https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10157
GUI Buildeer Deluxe: Build a GUI in the press of 1 button.
https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12830
Visual Editors
DRAKON Editor : Visual programming (with DRAKON diagrams) for AutoHotkey.
More info here : http://ahkscript.org/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3108
AutoHotFlow :This script is designed to make programming and automation easy as never before!
More info here : https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6399
Windows Spy
Control Spy :
Get it here : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb773165(v=vs.85).aspx
Winspector :
Get it here : http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Security-Related/Winspector.shtml
Window Detective :
Get it here : http://windowdetective.sourceforge.net/
WMI Explorer :
Get it here : https://wmie.codeplex.com/
toralf's "AHK Window Info 1.7" :
Original Topic : https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/8204-ahk-window-info-17/
Get it here : http://autohotkey.com/joe_df/autohotkey_scripts_archive/AHK%20Window%20Info%201.7.ahk
AccViewer.ahk by jethrow : a very special tool for figuring the API of a UI
Original Topic : https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/77888-accessible-info-viewer-alpha-release-2012-09-20/
Get it here : https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=26201
iWB2 Learner by jethrow : a tool for gathering information about Internet Explorer webpages.
Original Topic : https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/84258-iwb2-learner-iwebbrowser2/
Get it here : http://ahkscript.org/usertools/Jethrow/iWebBrowser2%20Learner.zip
WinSpy by Alguimist : Window Information Tool
Forum topic : https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=28220
Miscellaneous
MCode4GCC : C/C++ to MCode generator using GCC
Get it here : http://ahkscript.org/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4642
DebugView :
Debugging tool - considering that AHK has the OutputDebug command
Get it here : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896647.aspx
DebugView++ :
a free viewer for Windows OutputDebugString() based logging in the style of Sysinternals DebugView
Get it here : https://debugviewpp.wordpress.com/
AHK_Decompiler :
Recover scripts form compiled scripts for AHK v1.1+ even if compressed with UPX or MPRESS - Updated (joedf) version of IsNull's payload method decompiler
Get it here : https://autohotkey.com/joe_df/autohotkey_scripts_archive/AHK_decompiler.7z
Compile_AHK II :
Compiler wrapper with special features and settings
New version : https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=16061
Download v0.9.1.3 here (original) : https://autohotkey.com/joe_df/autohotkey_scripts_archive/Compile_AHK-v0.9.1.3.7z
More about it here : http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/21189-
Ahk2Exe [Edge-branch] :
Compiler - New functionality in Ahk2Exe
More about it here : http://ahkscript.org/boards/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=521
AHK-EXE-Swapper :
Easily swap AHK versions!
More about it here : http://ahkscript.org/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6310
AHK Generator :
Quickly define custom hotstrings and hotkeys online!
More info here: https://www.ahkgen.com
YUnit :
Super simple testing framework for AutoHotkey.
More info here : https://github.com/Uberi/Yunit
From Vasili111:
awesome-AutoHotkey list
awesome-AutoHotkey list is inspired by other lists from Awesome Awesomeness list and is hosted at ahkscript Github organisation. awesome-AutoHotkey is a specially curated list for high-quality AutoHotkey Libraries, Library Distributions, Scripts, Tools and Resources. This resource was made by the AutoHotkey community and wouldn't be possible without you! We appreciate and recognize all contributors. Please read CONTRIBUTING.md before contributing.
The following are some useful user-contributed tools to facilitate the use of AutoHotkey.
Quick tools
CodeQuickTester :
More info here : http://ahkscript.org/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6113
Macro Creator : Need to quickly automate some things? This is a recommended for beginners.
Get it here : http://ahkscript.org/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=143
GUI Buildeer Deluxe: Build a GUI in the press of 1 button.
https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12830
WMI Code Creator :
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8572
AHK Code indenter/prettify : (Online/Offline)
https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=8678
MagicBox Factory :
https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=20983
Editors
SciTE4AutoHotkey : A SciTE-based AutoHotkey script editor.
Get it here : http://ahkscript.org/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=62
AHK Studio : Another great editor for AutoHotkey programming.
Get it here : http://ahkscript.org/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=300
Adventure IDE : A general-purpose IDE and lightweight text editor for Windows.
Get it here : viewtopic.php?f=64&t=89901
Notepad++ : A great, free and generic source code editor.
How to set up : http://ahkscript.org/boards/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=50
Sublime Text : A really cool editor known for its slick user interface and features. It can be evaluated for free.
How to set up : http://ahkscript.org/boards/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=88
Visual Studio Code : Microsoft's newer, fast and versatile code editor, extensible with plugins
Download and info: https://code.visualstudio.com/
AutoHotkey Plus (extension) Project page: https://github.com/cweijan/vscode-autohotkey
Plugin page: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=cweijan.vscode-autohotkey-plus
EverEdit: A payware (there's a 30 day trial) editor with ahk support, code snippets and much more. Sort of a cross between notepad++ and sublime.
http://www.everedit.net/index.php
GUI Creators
SmartGUI Creator : Here's an easy point-n-click GUI (user interface) creator!... You just draw a user interface the way you like and a script will be generated.
Original Forum topic : https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/738-smartgui-creator/
Download (updated version [v4.3.29.7]) : https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/96299-smartguixp-mod-v43297-by-drugwash/
drugwash's releases : https://my.cloudme.com/#drugwash/mytools/SmartGUICreatorMod
GUI Creator : Simpler and easier to creating GUIs in AutoHotkey.
Get it Here: http://ahkscript.org/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=303
Auto-GUI : Windows form designer for AutoHotkey.
Get it here : https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10157
GUI Buildeer Deluxe: Build a GUI in the press of 1 button.
https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12830
Visual Editors
DRAKON Editor : Visual programming (with DRAKON diagrams) for AutoHotkey.
More info here : http://ahkscript.org/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3108
AutoHotFlow :This script is designed to make programming and automation easy as never before!
More info here : https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6399
Windows Spy
Control Spy :
Get it here : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb773165(v=vs.85).aspx
Winspector :
Get it here : http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Security-Related/Winspector.shtml
Window Detective :
Get it here : http://windowdetective.sourceforge.net/
WMI Explorer :
Get it here : https://wmie.codeplex.com/
toralf's "AHK Window Info 1.7" :
Original Topic : https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/8204-ahk-window-info-17/
Get it here : http://autohotkey.com/joe_df/autohotkey_scripts_archive/AHK%20Window%20Info%201.7.ahk
AccViewer.ahk by jethrow : a very special tool for figuring the API of a UI
Original Topic : https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/77888-accessible-info-viewer-alpha-release-2012-09-20/
Get it here : https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=26201
iWB2 Learner by jethrow : a tool for gathering information about Internet Explorer webpages.
Original Topic : https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/84258-iwb2-learner-iwebbrowser2/
Get it here : http://ahkscript.org/usertools/Jethrow/iWebBrowser2%20Learner.zip
WinSpy by Alguimist : Window Information Tool
Forum topic : https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=28220
Miscellaneous
MCode4GCC : C/C++ to MCode generator using GCC
Get it here : http://ahkscript.org/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4642
DebugView :
Debugging tool - considering that AHK has the OutputDebug command
Get it here : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896647.aspx
DebugView++ :
a free viewer for Windows OutputDebugString() based logging in the style of Sysinternals DebugView
Get it here : https://debugviewpp.wordpress.com/
AHK_Decompiler :
Recover scripts form compiled scripts for AHK v1.1+ even if compressed with UPX or MPRESS - Updated (joedf) version of IsNull's payload method decompiler
Get it here : https://autohotkey.com/joe_df/autohotkey_scripts_archive/AHK_decompiler.7z
Compile_AHK II :
Compiler wrapper with special features and settings
New version : https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=16061
Download v0.9.1.3 here (original) : https://autohotkey.com/joe_df/autohotkey_scripts_archive/Compile_AHK-v0.9.1.3.7z
More about it here : http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/21189-
Ahk2Exe [Edge-branch] :
Compiler - New functionality in Ahk2Exe
More about it here : http://ahkscript.org/boards/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=521
AHK-EXE-Swapper :
Easily swap AHK versions!
More about it here : http://ahkscript.org/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6310
AHK Generator :
Quickly define custom hotstrings and hotkeys online!
More info here: https://www.ahkgen.com
YUnit :
Super simple testing framework for AutoHotkey.
More info here : https://github.com/Uberi/Yunit
From Vasili111:
awesome-AutoHotkey list
awesome-AutoHotkey list is inspired by other lists from Awesome Awesomeness list and is hosted at ahkscript Github organisation. awesome-AutoHotkey is a specially curated list for high-quality AutoHotkey Libraries, Library Distributions, Scripts, Tools and Resources. This resource was made by the AutoHotkey community and wouldn't be possible without you! We appreciate and recognize all contributors. Please read CONTRIBUTING.md before contributing.