In this lecture I discuss some of the more "important" settings I have in my scripts that I'm developing

In this lecture I cover some less-important / Optional settings you might want in your default settings for your AutoHotkey scripts

In this lecture I demonstrate how to put your setting into a default file and then "pull them in" to your active script with an #Include command

Here I demonstrate adding some helpful hotkeys to your default script.  This simplifies developing your code quite a bit!

In this lecture I review three ways to send keystrokes in AutoHotkey

These are preferred/recommended way to send keystrokes in AutoHotkey

AutoHotkey is amazing however it is single-threaded.  If you have a hard-stop (like a message box) your script will be "stuck" until the Message box gets dismissed.   SetTimers are a great way to get around this issue.

Writing key-value pairs in an ini file is easire than you'd think!

Understanding how ini files are structured is key.  In this lecture I walk through how to navigate their structure with iniRead

In this working session we practice some of what we learned with iniRead and iniWrite

In this lecture I demonstrate how to read a string value in the registry

This lecture explains how to read a multi-string value in the registry

Here we cover how to write keys / values to the windows registry

Deleting Keys and Values in the registry is easy with AutoHotkey.  This lecture we demonstrate how to do both.

In this working session I demonstrate how to apply some of the registry commands we learn.  I also show how I had to elevate my script to run at admin-level so the script would update properly.

In this lecture I walk through some of the main advantages and disadvantages of using controls in AutoHotkey

Here are some additional resources to learn more about Controls

While we will focus on the ClassNN to connect to a control, there are other ways.

Here are a few tools for working with Controls

There are a lot of commands in AutoHotkey for working with Controls!  We'll cover all of them in the next lectures

Getting the text of a control is simple with ControlGetText

It's reliable, fast, and easy to set the text of a control with ControlSetText

You can also send keystrokes / mouse clicks to controls.  In this lecture we show you how to do it and how it is different than ControlSetText

If you have special characters (like !, #, or {, you will want to use ControlSendRaw

If you want to get the position of a control, it is easy with ControlGetPos

Sometimes you want to detect which control has the focus.  This lecture walks you through how to use ControlGetFocus

Lists are amazing!  So is the power of AutoHotkey to extract data from them, update them, and set them

This lecture shows how to find out what is selected in a list

Sometimes you want to know the line number you're on in a list.  You can get it with ControlGetLine

If you want to know the number of lines in a control, make sure you watch this lecture

Comboboxes are cool!  See how you can work with them in this lecture

A lot of controls are ComboBoxes.  Check out how you can work with them in this lecture

Listviews are very powerful.  With AutoHotkey you can peak into them and see what is there, what's selected and more

If you'd like to know what your focused on in a listview, check out this lecture

Easily detect how many selections you have in a listview

Did you realize you can add and delete items in lists of other programs?  This is AMAZING!

Selecting form a list is pretty awesome and handy!

Being able to send a "click" to a control without moving your mouse, or interrupting the user, is a great way to have a highly-reliable automation program

Want to move a Control?  Or change it's size?  It's hard to believe but you can do this for many controls in Windows programs

Checking & Unchecking boxes comes up a lot!  Watch this video so you can Automate it with AutoHotkey

Do you have a button you don't want employees to push?  Or want to enable something that is normally disabled?  This lecture is for you

Forget disabling!  Want to completely hide the control?  It's easy with AutoHotkey!  Robotics Process Automation rocks!

Dropdowns can also be hidden or shown with AutoHotkey

Do you have a program that always starts on the wrong tab?  You can automate changing the tabs with this AutoHotkey command

Being able to programatically paste into an Edit control is awesome!

In this working session I demonstrate using Controls on various programs.  It's truly amazing what can be done!

In this lecture I explain the power of using WinMenuSelectItem.

Sending the word you want to trigger is a super-easy way to automate programs with AutoHotkey

Some menus have pictures (or charchters that you can't send).  In this case, sending the number works great!

I'll have to admit, I didn't even know "system Menus" existed!   I learned a lot in this lecture as to how to connect with a "hidden" menu that programs have

While there are a lot of types of Loops in AutoHotkey, there are some basic commonalities.  I address them in this lecture

This first lecture covers the normal / basic loop command in AutoHotkey

Here I walk through using the While Loop command

Using the Until loop can be a handy way to write your code

Parsing text with the Loop command is pretty cool.   Also, if you work with CSV data, AutoHotkey has some GREAT built-in functionality!

In this lecture we show how to parse text with the loop command

In this lecture I explain how awesome it is that AutoHotkey has built-in functionality to handle CSV data that is double-quote encapsulated.

In this lecture I give an overview of looping over Files and Folders

Here we walk through out to loop over Files & Folders with the Loop command

Here we play with the Loop command showing how to loop over files and folders

In this lecture we discuss some of the differences between Simple Arrays and Associative Arrays

Here I dive into Simple Arrays.   Think of them as "lists" but not having any logical "order"

This is a brief overview of programming with Simple Arrays

Initializing an Array is simple in AutoHotkey.  Also setting a value can be done very easily

Message Boxes are handy but they force you to hit a button and frequently do not display the data in a great format.  In this lecture I demonstrate using the Debug window in AHK Studio to display your results.   I have a function that also does this for SciTE.  You can find it here: https://the-automator.com/scite-output-pane/

It's easy to add to an array.  This lecture I show how to Push into an Array

It's very easy to remove items from an Array with AutoHotkey.  Here we look at the RemoveAt and Pop Methods.

There are different approaches for getting info out of an Array object.  Here we cover three