If you run Firefox and, with Window Spy on your screen, click on its window. Now, whenever you click on any other window, AutoHotkey’s Window Spy will present you information about it.Īt the very top you’ll be able to see the different ways you can target it based on its title, class, and executable. Right-click on it and choose Window Spy from the menu that pops up. Run your empty script to have the AHK icon appear in the Windows tray. The #If after it closes the section so that anything following it will not be confined to windows with a Notepad class. This tells AutoHotkey that anything following “IfWinActive” should only work in a window with a Notepad class ( ahk_class Notepad).
Your script will be pre-populated with some basic settings. This allows you to have, for example, the same shortcut doing different things in two different programs.
You can create global scripts in AutoHotkey that will work everywhere, in every app and the Windows desktop, but you can also target apps. Target specific apps or windowsīefore we start, let’s first check out the program we wish to make a script for. If you don’t have any such tool installed, and since your first scripts will be simple, you can even use Windows’s Notepad.įor those wondering, I personally use all those tools for other purposes (like HTML, CSS, and some very basic JS, PHP, and Python), but for editing AHK scripts, I find myself returning to the popular Notepad++. Anything from Atom to Sublime Text or VS Code will do. You can edit AHK files in any text editor, but since scripting is a lite version of programming, it’s better if you use a program made for that purpose. Instead of double-clicking the AHK file you created like you’d do to run a pre-made script, right-click on it and select Edit. Actually, though, AHK files are scripts you can open in any text editor.Ĭreate a new folder for your first AutoHotkey script wherever you wish, enter it, right-click and create a “New -> AutoHotkey Script” from the new option in your right-click menu. That’s why they work as executables – AutoHotkey parses them in realtime and executes their contents. Make a blank scriptĪfter its installation, AutoHotkey will have registered as the default app for files with the AHK extension. Ignore the other two options – “V2” is a new version, incompatible with existing scripts and with a slightly different syntax, while “V1.0 Deprecated” is old and restricted. Installationĭownload and install AutoHotkey from its official site. For this tutorial, we start with the bare basics that will get you started in turning any multi-step process into a single keystroke.
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