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just as the title says...:
1) what do these mean and do?:
.=
:=
!=
(If there are more, include them in the answer please)
When should these be used?

2) Let's say I want the script to pause itself until my A_cursor is on IBeam.
So I thought about this thing:

<start of the script here>

Loop
{
If A_cursor = IBeam
{Break}
}

<end of the script here>

So two questions about what I typed up here:
I) How do I type the bolded line correctly? (so it will actually check if the cursor is on IBeam "mode")
II) Is there any way to shorten/optimize that script?

3) Is there any command (or anything I can make) that tells the script-reading to return to a certain line?
So I can type something like:

if <expression>
ReturnTo 13 ; return to line 13.


Any help is great!

1)
.= - I have no idea, maybe someone can fill us in.
:= - Dunno what it's called, an expression operator? Basically it expects an expression on the right.

var = cheese ; var contains a string, "cheese"
var := "cheese" ; var contains a string, "cheese"
var := cheese ; var is assigned the contents of cheese. If cheese were a variable with a number, say 5, then var would contain a "5"

!= - not equals

if (cheese != 5)
msgbox cheese isn't five!

2)
Loop
{
If (A_cursor = "IBeam")
Break
sleep 50 ; script waits 0.05 seconds before continuing
}

That work? Untested.

3)
Lables, unless you're inside a function.

DoThis:
var += 1
if (var < 10)
Goto DoThis
NowDoThis:
var2 += 10
if (var2 < 100)
Goto NowDoThis
MsgBox var is at least ten (%var%) and var2 is at least one hundred (%var2%).
return


Hope I got that right.

J Richards wrote:1)
.= - I have no idea, maybe someone can fill us in.
:= - Dunno what it's called, an expression operator? Basically it expects an expression on the right.

var = cheese ; var contains a string, "cheese"
var := "cheese" ; var contains a string, "cheese"
var := cheese ; var is assigned the contents of cheese. If cheese were a variable with a number, say 5, then var would contain a "5"

!= - not equals

if (cheese != 5)
msgbox cheese isn't five!

2)
Loop
{
If (A_cursor = "IBeam")
Break
sleep 50 ; script waits 0.05 seconds before continuing
}

That work? Untested.

3)
Lables, unless you're inside a function.

DoThis:
var += 1
if (var < 10)
Goto DoThis
NowDoThis:
var2 += 10
if (var2 < 100)
Goto NowDoThis
MsgBox var is at least ten (%var%) and var2 is at least one hundred (%var2%).
return


Hope I got that right.

Thanks, you've solved a lot of my questions! but few are unsolved...
Oh by the way, you typed: "var +=1"
Does it mean that var is at least 1?

var += 1 increments by one, the same thing as var++ and var := var + 1

Except, var := var + 1 doesn't seem to work if var is empty. So you'd have to make sure it wasn't empty beforehand. var = 0

For information on .= etc., read up on this subject in the help file. Scroll down to 'assign' in the table, although the whole page is worth a read.

Hi, look here:

https://autohotkey.com/docs/Variables.htm#Operators

All your questions are answered there.
hunter99

For question 1, see the link provided by TAC109 and Hunter99.

For question 2, there are several possible methods. Here are two of them... For question 3, Labels combined with GoTo are the closest option. GoSub can also be quite useful.