AHK brings back memories. The campus I was working at had the dorm network saturated by Sasser and variants. Networking turned off the dorm network. I used AHK to automate Windows patch installers, installing Norton Corporate AV and grabbing the MAC address to disinfect Sasser from dorm computers. Over the course of a weekend or two everyone in the dorm had to have the hotfix & AV installed or show us their MacOS or Linux box and provide the MAC address to get back on the network.
AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement
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Re: AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement
#52I love Autohotkey because, in addition to its productivity benefits, it's a defensive tool against dark patterns imposed by user-hostile companies. For example, I've been using it for years to enter my Runescape password [1] due to Jagex being clueless about security [2] [1] https://reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/gxapao/how_to_paste_... [2] https://www.troyhunt.com/the-cobra-effect-that-is-disabling/
You can use KeePass for that too, you can even customize the script to press (password)(enter) with a single shortcut.
Re: AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not an expert, but these are basically the changes I would see that need to happen: All of the places where you use commands no longer need a preceding comma: Run, Calc.exe This is now just: Run "Calc.exe" Similarly, all areas where you use strings now need to be quoted: Send, https://discord.gg/6SNQ4c6 Will now have to be: Send "https://discord.gg/6SNQ4c6" AFAIK the area where you use "blocks" of code like this:…
oh wow, that's a pretty comprehensive set of changes, thanks for the reply! I'll procrastinate on this a bit then, it looks like it'll be closer to an hour than five minutes, although not too bad simply because it's not that big a file.
Or you could ask ChatGPT to rewrite your scripts, maybe just give them the rules above.
Re: AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement
#54I love Autohotkey because, in addition to its productivity benefits, it's a defensive tool against dark patterns imposed by user-hostile companies. For example, I've been using it for years to enter my Runescape password [1] due to Jagex being clueless about security [2] [1] https://reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/gxapao/how_to_paste_... [2] https://www.troyhunt.com/the-cobra-effect-that-is-disabling/
You can use KeePass for that too, you can even customize the script to press (password)(enter) with a single shortcut.
Note: There are a lot of implementations of KeePass that surpass the original in quality.
KeePassXC is likely the one that's best for most people who wish to go down the standalone application route: https://keepassxc.org/docs/#faq-keepassx
Since quite a while ago now, Tails switched from KeePassX to KeePassXC: https://tails.boum.org/doc/encryption_and_privacy/manage_pas...
So if you're still on KeePass, KeePass2, or KeePassX - consider upgrading to KeePassXC.
Re: AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
oh wow, that's a pretty comprehensive set of changes, thanks for the reply! I'll procrastinate on this a bit then, it looks like it'll be closer to an hour than five minutes, although not too bad simply because it's not that big a file.
Or you could ask ChatGPT to rewrite your scripts, maybe just give them the rules above.
I tried. I really, really, really tried. It......can't do it. There's a few rules OP left out (or I guess, glossed over as a generalization), like IfWinActive now needs to enclose its stuff in braces and that's just too much for it. I put its first attempt as well as its last two here: https://github.com/RheingoldRiver/misc_settings/issues/3
After I read the changes it told me it made (I always do something like this to get it to check its own work) I was like "hm this is sus as fuck" so I had it redo it several times and then yeah just....gave up.
Good idea though, and I did learn a bunch about the syntax so when I go to do it myself it'll be easier. I wonder if some of what OP said was determined later than GhatGPT's cutoff date, although I don't think so - I remember even back when I set up these hotkeys 2.0 was in an early beta and I was like uhhhhhh no there's almost 0 docs on this, but I thought I might regret it one day; I don't, though, there were 0 docs back then, it was the right call.
Re: AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement
#56I ended up using AHK for komorebi[1] because I was still new to Windows when I started writing it and I didn't wanna have to write a tiling window manager AND a hotkey daemon. I even ended up generating a nice little AHK library to wrap around CLI commands that sent socket messages to the window manager to make it easier to write a configuration. Ultimately the syntax changes make it impossible to fully reproduce the…
Can't you just right click on you script and pick "compile" or something similar to pack the v1 interpreter with your code? I remember a functionality like that existing.
I just downloaded v2, purely by incident (haven’t used AHK for some time) but there is now official support for compile-to-exe. No idea how good it is, I’ve only used AHK for one-offs, short term projects, etc.
Re: AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement
#57I saw there's a python library that just lets you write autohotkey scripts in actual python code. I'd rather try that if I was going to rewrite my v1 scripts. AHK is awesome but the scripting language was never good. The new one looks like it has some better syntax, but native python support would be a much better solution for a lot of people.
Pyautogui?
https://github.com/asweigart/pyautogui
That one is also cross-platform, if that’s useful to you.
Re: AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can use KeePass for that too, you can even customize the script to press (password)(enter) with a single shortcut.
Note: There are a lot of implementations of KeePass that surpass the original in quality. KeePassXC is likely the one that's best for most people who wish to go down the standalone application route: https://keepassxc.org/docs/#faq-keepassx Since quite a while ago now, Tails switched from KeePassX to KeePassXC: https://tails.boum.org/doc/encryption_and_privacy/manage_pas... So if you're still on KeePass, KeePass2, or…
Another vote for KeepassXC. An amazing fork.
Re: AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement
#59I saw there's a python library that just lets you write autohotkey scripts in actual python code. I'd rather try that if I was going to rewrite my v1 scripts. AHK is awesome but the scripting language was never good. The new one looks like it has some better syntax, but native python support would be a much better solution for a lot of people.
Why? The AHK python library isn't going to be so cleanly abstracted so that a different automation engine (eg hammerspoon w/ lua on macOS) can be plugged in, so the code is always going up be tightly coupled to AHK, and Python support is likely to be second-class to support for its own language. So other than some obsessive need to standardize on a single language which will never be won, what does Python buy?
Python buys into pypi, which has a 6-digit number of packages, e.g opencv can read your screen to find buttons, etc.
Re: AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement
#60What are some use cases where having AHK scripts would help? On the same note, can anyone share some existing list of scripts and their functions which helped make their lives easier?
Here's one of mine: JKLmouse.
This was originally a program I wrote in C for my own use on my ThinkPads some 20 years ago. It turns various keys into mouse movements whenever a mouse button or the Caps Lock key is held down, so you can use the TrackPoint for coarse movement and then seamlessly move the mouse pointer pixel by pixel with the keyboard.
It's a bit like the MouseKeys that is built into Windows for keyboards with numeric pads, but designed for laptop keyboards that don't have that.
When I discovered AutoHotkey, I rewrote JKLmouse using it, and it made it so much better. The code was simpler, and I could make a change and reload the AHK script without having to reboot. I think it is a pretty nice example of some readable and maintainable AHK code.
You can find it here: https://www.jklmouse.com/
There is an installer, but I haven't kept it up to date. Instead I recommend installing AutoHotkey directly and getting jklmouse.ahk from GitHub and using it as an AHK script.
Now I have to see about updating the script to work with AutoHotkey V2!