AHK is dam fun!

AHK which is the abbreviation for Auto Hot Key is a dam useful macro program. I have been using it for more than half a year and the person who recommended it to me happened to be the same person who sent me Super Smash Brothers and is my cousin, Glen. I owe him quite a lot so I thought that some credit is due but lets move on forward.

Cactuar’s New Home

This week’s article would be covered with random shots again…

Anyway I just thought that I should share this wonderful program with my readers, due to a lack of content otherwise , so we shall start by heading over here to download the program.

After running the program, when you try to right click (your mouse), at new,  there will be an option to create a new auto hotkey script. Select that.

Cactuar did not like it as it was too dusty

This is just a very basic tutorial for people who have never used ahk before. I myself is still very new to this so I cannot provide complex scripts, only simple ones which I use.

Its important to remember that all auto hotkey scripts should end with .ahk, just like text documents with .txt, and rename it to something like test.ahk, which I always do when trying to test out a new script. It can be renamed to something else later.

Doesn’t she look familiar?

Lets start with the first program. AHK is used for repetitive work, lets say reading emails or visiting websites. There is RSS feed, yes, but there are some occasions where one might prefer to just get to the site and finds it a bother to double click internet explorer/mozilla firefox/Opera/etc and then typing in the address especially if it has to be done many times.

This is where AHK comes in. Instead of having to use both your mouse and keyboard, your repetitive action of could be shortened to two keys.

Parallel Circuit

Side tracking a little, wouldn’t a single light bulb or at most three light bulbs be much better? I totally fail at physics so I shall not comment too much.

Ok, back. For example, (Since doing the actual thing is so much better than reading my lecture), right click the test.ahk which you created and press edit script.

Oh yeah before I forget, the semicolon ; represents comments, just like how // represents comments in C++. So you will see quite a few semicolons within the script. Skip them and head on to the last line.

The pigeon is as big as a lion

Press enter a few times (You can skip this step but I feel that its better to separate the comments from your script for better viewing/editing). Then type in the following :

#e::
Run, http://ezovex.wordpress.com
return

Simple right?

I ran out of pictures so I have to use my manga archive

The break down for those three lines are :

press windows+e (The windows key in between the alt and ctrl key on the left hand side of the keyboard and the character e)

After the two keys are pressed simultaneously, the following url will be opened on your unique browser (Mine happens to be Mozilla Firefox) and I will head over to my homepage.

As for return, well, I write it in for fun but I think it will not cause much of a difference without it, though sometimes it will act like backspace.

GenderBender manga for the winz

Here are the prefixes used :
^ [Control] button
+ [Shift] button
! [Alt] button
# [Windows] button

So its also possible to have ^!e which will be Ctrl+Alt+e or ^e or !e. There are many combinations possible and not only that AHK can be used for desktop applications.

This guy is gay, or rather, pretends to be (late spoiler alert)

For example, a script to open notepad would be :

#N::
Run Notepad
return

But this only applies to utilities such as notepad. Don’t expect something like the following example to work, even if you have Super Smash Brothers on your desktop.

#S::
Run, SuperSmashBrothers
return

His arm is as big as his face

For specific folders or files, the entire directory has to be written, for example :

!m
Run, C:\Program Files\mIRC\mirc.exe
return

The specific path has to be laid out for the program to work.

Well, thats all I can provide for now. I am still experimenting with this extremely useful program as I prefer to use the keyboard more than my mouse (Which is going haywire) but it has the potential to do greater things.

The scripts which I have are only merely 2-5 lines but I have seen some which are over 10-30 lines, although quantity is not as important as quality, those scripts have proven to have quality once they were run.

There is also a forum for AHK and google provides some answers to questions which I had earlier but for the average or below average user, I think that those guides which I provided would be enough although some might feel up for a challenge and pursue AHK further.

My post for AHK ends here but before I end… Lets have a tiny manga ranting session.

I would recommend this manga if anyone is interested

Basically its just girl transforms into pretty guy in virtual reality world (futuristic manga so their virtual reality is way beyond us) and causes lots of misunderstandings, well I would rate it as comedy and can provide a laugh. Though I laugh at almost anything.

Cactuar shuns away from genderbender manga

Also, before I end off this week’s post, tomorrow would be the release of the GCE ‘O’ levels results. As I mentioned years ago (I suddenly feel really old) ‘O’ levels was nothing to me, even without studying I managed to scrape through with decent grades and nothing lower than B but unfortunately, GCE ‘A’ levels was a killer. To me at least. Well, I shall slowly wait for my results which will probably be released soon, latest by March I think.

P.S

Wow, my posts seem to be getting longer and longer.

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