AHK Knowledge

[DonCorleon]

Can someone point me in the direction of a good resource to help learn AHK or possibly the name of a book? eg AHK for dummies

[djvj]

I don't think any of us learned from a book, if there even is one. You start small, using example scripts from the ahk docs, then edit those to do something else. You just have to hop in, get your hands dirty, use the docs, and have an idea of what you want to do. When I first started, I was making game bots.

[zerojay]

AHK documentation, lots of looking at other scripts, finding script snippets on the AHK forum, looking at the source for HL.. and getting your hands dirty. That's how I've done it.

[bleasby]

Just try to make a small program.

Like moving files from one place to another if you press a key. You can have a lot of examples on the documentation on how to make it work, just search for autohotkey file move, folder create,...

After that make everything on your code dependable of variables.

After that go to something more difficult, using functions to make the same things.

As soon as you understand this, you are able to do anything.

Just get any code and try to read. You will get very fast as everything works.

Script languages are very easy because they work as you read them. One line after the other.

Good rule. Choose to make a small program that you would like to have and start trying. You will not understand how somethings work at the beginning, but very soon you will have control on everything.

[DonCorleon]

Thanks for the advice gents. Ill have dirty hands in no time.