Kabir Ahmed: AutoHotkey
- 1. AutoHotkey and the way I use it Kabir Ahmed Quality Assurance Engineer SoftwarePeop!e | Peop!eGroup
- 2. What is AutoHotkey It’s a scripting tool. Automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks. Create hotkeys for keyboard, joystick, and mouse. Create hotstring and expand abbreviations as you type them. i.e "btw" -> "by the way".
- 3. Detail Features GUI & Other Dialogs Keyboard Control Mouse Control Sound Commands Flow of Control Functions String Management Math Commands File, Directory, and Disk Management Window Management Registry Management Process Management
- 4. I like this tool, because Its free. It has a script recording tool Script can be complied to independent EXE file. Comprehensive help file with example.
- 5. General Uses
- 6. General uses - Hotkey F1 : Launch Notepad F9: Minimize active window to tray F12 : Launch Team System CTRL + L: Login to Gmail, Yahoo etc. ALT+CTRL+F12: Shutdown system Example: ^L:: ControlGetText, OutputVar, Edit1, Internet Explorer FoundPos := RegExMatch(OutputVar, "(.*)dellshare(.*)") if FoundPos > 0 { Send, kabir Send,{TAB} Send,******* Send,{TAB}{ENTER} return }
- 7. General uses - HotString \ds : Kabir_Test_March31-08 05:30 pm \dt. : Enter current date with dot (.) Separator. (31.12.2008) \dt/ : Enter current date with slash (/) Separator. (31/12/2008) \dt- : Enter current date with dash (-) Separator. (31-12-2008) \str : step to reproduce
- 8. Open VSTS Work item from VTB
- 9. Open VSTS Work item from VTB
- 10. Open VSTS Work item from VTB With a script of AutoHotkey, to open a work item, it only needs a Double Click What the script does Press CTRL+C to copy the selected ID Find & activate the VSTS window Press ALT+m to Drop the Team menu Press G to bring up the Goto workitem window. Paste the ID into ID field Press Tab and enter the bring up the workitem
- 11. CounterString
- 12. CounterString to validate Text field
- 13. CounterString – Script Modified the counterstring function of PerlClip in autohotkey script. Search user forum to get regular expression based hotkey
- 14. Conclusion I found this tool is very good to create lightweight application Automate tasks
- 15. Thank You