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Autohotkey is capable of doing some remarkable things (windows only sadly). Here's a cool "launcher" project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv2LAqkmd1c&featu
by patrickk 8y ago
Autohotkey is capable of doing some remarkable things (windows only sadly).
Here's a cool "launcher" project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv2LAqkmd1c&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv2LAqkmd1c&feature=youtu.be
https://github.com/plul/Public-AutoHotKey-Scripts https://github.com/plul/Public-AutoHotKey-Scripts
With Pulover's Macro creator, you can literally record actions with mouse and keyboard, get the output in AHK script and tidy it up. You can trivially recognise pixels, meaning you can tell your mouse to click x,y coordinates or a certain button (for when there is no API for something, for example)
http://www.macrocreator.com/ http://www.macrocreator.com/
Some genius made a virtual workspace for windows using AHK:
https://github.com/octalmage/mdesktop https://github.com/octalmage/mdesktop
Some random uses I have for AHK:
* trigger today's date in dd.mm.yy (or dd-mm-yy, or any combo you like) with a macro, useful for when you drafting documents and need to quickly insert the date
* lookup the train schedule from work to home with a keypress
* shortcut to German characters on an EN keyboard
* paste and translate to/from english with dict.cc and leo.org in separate tabs
* "sig" expands to my email signature
* shortcuts to colleagues' obscure foreign names, which I always misspell in emails (saves embarrassment!)
* macro to run common applications like notepad, chrome, powershell (obvious use case)
* macro to open an excel to do list
* Quickly switch between headphone types on a work PC (USB headphones and regular headphone jack needed some fiddly settings to be changed to switch between them) (https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/SoundSet.htm https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/SoundSet.htm)
* Tool for popup window, can be used to display almost anything, e.g. your list of shortcuts in case you forget them! - https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?p=100953#p100953 https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?p=100953#p100953
* Huge list of ideas here: https://github.com/ahkscript/awesome-AutoHotkey https://github.com/ahkscript/awesome-AutoHotkey
AHK has a huge amount of cool projects on the forums, and it runs like lightning since it is very resource light.
- ChrisGranger 8y agoAutoKey https://github.com/autokey/autokey https://github.com/autokey/autokey for Linux is pretty similar, though perhaps not as popular and well documented as AutoHotkey. It's simple enough that anyone can use it to make text-expansion macros, but it becomes more powerful if you're proficient with Python.