Since you're viewing this documentation locally, you've probably already installed AutoHotkey and can skip to section b.īefore learning to use AutoHotkey (AHK), you will need to download it. If you get confused, try reading the section again. You can copy and paste most examples on this page. For optimal learning power, it is advised that you read the text and try the code. Throughout this tutorial you will see a lot of text and a lot of code. Function Calls with or without Parenthesesīefore we begin our journey, let me give some advice.How to find the help file on your computer.Your suggestion is even simpler to write a script for.Beginner Tutorial | AutoHotkey v2 AutoHotkey Beginner Tutorial by tidbit Table of Contents Anyone could write or maintain a launcher such as this. My intention is for the installer to include a script that does this, based on #requires, a comment with version information, or checking for tell-tales in the script (such as #NoEnv -> v1). Better to specify only the requirements of the script, and let the launcher determine what to do based on what's 'installed' (or known by the launcher).

With your example, every user must have the appropriate interpreter installed in the same location. There's no need for a directive - the launcher script can read comments.īy the way, including the path of the interpreter in a script is an old idea used on Unix.

You're probably thinking that AutoHotkey.exe itself would do it, but that obviously won't be v2.0-a118 or v1.1.33.02, since those versions have already been released without that directive. How do you think it will work? Something has to read the directive.

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