| Company Name | AutoHotkey | | Address | 3804 Darston St. Palm Harbor FL 34685 USA | | Contact | Chris Mallett | | Contact Email | support@autohotkey.com | | Author | Chris Mallett | | General Phone | 727-787-4991 | | Release Date | 01 06 2004 | | Type | freeware | | OS Support | Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT 4.x, WinXP, Windows2000 | | Language | English | | System Requirements | None (it uses very little memory) |
| Customize your keyboard, joystick, and mouse with an open source scripting language that is backward compatible with AutoIt v2. It includes a quick-start tutorial, an automatic script writer (macro recorder) that records your keystrokes and mouse clicks, and a comprehensive help file.
In addition to its automation features described below, AutoHotkey excels at hotkeys, able to make virtually *any* mouse/joystick button, keyboard key, or combination into a hotkey. It can also individually disable or override Windows' own shortcut keys, such as Win+E and Win+R. It may also help alleviate RSI; for example, it can create substitutes for Alt-Tab using keys, mouse wheel, or buttons.
MAJOR AUTOMATION FEATURES
- Retrieve or change the volume, mute, and other settings of any soundcard.
- Remap keys and mouse/joystick buttons.
- Send keystrokes and mouse clicks to any window (without even needing to activate it).
- Launch programs, shortcuts, URLs, and documents.
- Activate, hide, close, or resize any window.
- Make a window transparent and/or always-on-top.
- Define magic words that when typed trigger an action.
- Create custom tray icon menus.
- Use a joystick as a mouse.
- Monitor your system at chosen intervals (e.g. close unwanted windows the moment they appear).
- Automate game actions using high-performance hotkeys and commands such as PixelGetColor.
- Retrieve and change the clipboard's contents, even if it contains files copied from the Explorer.
- Copy, move, delete, or change the timestamp/attributes of a collection of files and folders.
- Perform any operation upon a set of files and folders that match a wildcard pattern.
- Read, write, and parse text files more easily than in most other languages.
- Work with the registry and INI files using the included interface commands.
- Display simple tooltips and balloon tips.
- Display dialog boxes to interact with the user.
- Convert any script into an EXE that can be run on any computer. |