AutoHotkey
If you make lots of repetitive actions when building sites, here is a brilliant
FREE tool to make life easier. Even put your auto-pilot on auto-pilot!!
AutoHotkey is a free, open-source utility for Windows. With it, you can:
- Automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks.
You can write a mouse
or keyboard macro by hand or use the macro recorder.
- Create hotkeys for
keyboard, joystick, and mouse. Virtually any key, button, or combination
can become a hotkey.
- Expand abbreviations as
you type them. For example, typing "btw" can automatically produce "by
the way".
- Create custom data entry forms, user interfaces, and menu bars. See GUI for
details.
- Remap keys
and buttons on your keyboard, joystick, and mouse.
- Respond to signals from hand-held remote controls via the WinLIRC
client script.
- Run existing AutoIt v2 scripts and enhance them with new
capabilities.
- Convert any script into an EXE
file that can be run on computers that don't have AutoHotkey installed.
Getting started might be easier than you think. Check out the quick-start
tutorial.
More About Hotkeys
AutoHotkey unleashes the full potential of your keyboard, joystick, and
mouse. For example, in addition to the typical Control, Alt, and Shift modifiers,
you can use the Windows key and the Capslock key as modifiers. In fact,
you can make any key or mouse button act as a modifier. For these and other
capabilities, see Advanced
Hotkeys.
What Others Say
Wolfgang Reszel of c't Magazine: AutoHotkey sends several
tools into retirement. It unites hotkey and text macros and offers a scripting-language,
which is more powerful than every batch-file and easier to learn than the
Windows-Scripting-Host. Beginners are able to start fast because of the
scripting-language, similar to BASIC, contains a macro-recorder and syntax-checker.
[read the full article: Simple
automation of Windows and programs]
Dmitri Popov at NewsForge: Autohotkey features a combination
that makes it a tool of choice for automating Windows: It's both powerful
and easy to use. Whether you're a seasoned Windows administrator or an ordinary
user, Autohotkey can make your computing life easier. [read the full
article: Automating
Windows with Autohotkey]
ChronoTron: [AutoHotkey] lets you define any and I mean
any shortcut for Windows and do much more with your keyboard - Autohotkey,
the BEST keyboard configuring program... [read the full article: Life
Without Mouse]
Adam Pash of Lifehacker: With AutoHotKey, I’m confident
that I’ve trimmed the time I spend replying to emails down to a third
of what it would be without. [read the full article: Knock
down repetitive email with AutoHotKey]
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Other Features
- Change the volume, mute, and other settings of
any soundcard.
- Make any window transparent, always-on-top,
or alter its shape.
- Use a joystick or keyboard as
a mouse.
- Monitor your
system. For example, close unwanted windows the moment they appear.
- Retrieve and change the clipboard's
contents, including file names copied from an Explorer window.
- Disable or
override Windows' own shortcut keys such as Win+E and Win+R.
- Alleviate RSI with substitutes for Alt-Tab (using
keys, mouse wheel, or buttons).
- Customize the tray
icon menu with your own icon, tooltip, menu items, and submenus.
- Display dialog
boxes, tooltips, balloon
tips, and popup
menus to interact with the user.
- Perform scripted actions in response to
system shutdown or logoff.
- Detect how long the user has been idle.
For example, run CPU intensive tasks only when the user is away.
- Automate game actions by detecting images and pixel
colors (this is intended for legitimate uses such as the alleviation
of RSI).
- Read, write,
and parse text
files more easily than in other languages.
- Perform operation(s) upon a set of files that match a wildcard
pattern.
- Work with the registry and INI
files.
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