This will prevent many issues when you start having a lot of stuff in your scripts. It literally stops code from going any further, to the lines below. Send is the command, anything after the comma (,) will be typed.

The second line: Send, My First Script is how you send keystrokes.

Anything to the left of :: are the keys you need to press. Until then, here's an explanation of the above code: Here is a very basic script containing a hotkey which types text using the Send command when the hotkey is pressed: ^j:: For a list of all built-in commands, function and variables, see section 5. So now that you have created a script, we need to add stuff into the file.

A window should have popped up, probably Notepad.

Find the newly created file on your desktop and right-click it.

Click 'AutoHotkey Script' inside the 'New' menu.

AutoHotkey is not magic, we all wish it was, but it is not. Once you have AutoHotkey installed, you will probably want it to do stuff.

Once done, great! Continue on to section b.įor a video instruction, watch Install and Hello World on YouTube.

Keep going until you see an Install button. It has support for non-English letters and numbers (characters). In short, you would probably want to choose UNICODE.

During installation of AutoHotkey, you will be asked to choose from UNICODE or ANSI.

For this guide we will use the Installer since it is easiest to set up.

But that depends on the version you want.

After downloading it, you may possibly need to install it. 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.

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