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كLearning to Script with AutoIt V3 Document last updated 17 February 2010 AutoIt Version 3.3.0.0

Original Document: Alex Peters (LxP)

http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~apeters/

Updated By: Brett Francis (BrettF)

http://signa5.com

This document is for you if you are interested in learning to script with AutoIt. Where possible, I will try to assume that you have no prior coding experience and I aim to teach you some good general coding habits, which will be beneficial should you decide to move on to other languages.



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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ................................................................................................................................. 6

Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 7

What Is AutoIt? ................................................................................................................................... 7

Features of AutoIt ............................................................................................................................... 7

A little about this tutorial .................................................................................................................... 7

1 Starting Off ........................................................................................................................................... 8

1.1 Download and Install AutoIt V3 .................................................................................................... 8

1.2 Install SciTE4AutoIt3 ..................................................................................................................... 8

1.3 Know how to access the help file .................................................................................................. 9

1.4 Know what you want to achieve ................................................................................................... 9

1.5 What is contained in this tutorial? ................................................................................................ 9

2 Your First Steps .................................................................................................................................. 10

2.1 Creating and Organizing Script Files ........................................................................................... 10

2.2.1 Organization of Scripts ......................................................................................................... 10

2.1.2 Creating a Script from Explorer ............................................................................................ 10

2.1.3 Creating a Script from SciTE ................................................................................................. 11

2.2 Hello World Example .................................................................................................................. 11

2.2. 1 The Steps ............................................................................................................................. 11

2.2.2 Explanation .......................................................................................................................... 11

2.2.3 Extended Work .................................................................................................................... 12

2.2.4 The Code .............................................................................................................................. 13

2.3 Simple Notepad Automation ...................................................................................................... 13

2.4. 1 The Steps ............................................................................................................................. 13

2.3.2 Explanation .......................................................................................................................... 15

2.3.3 Extended Work .................................................................................................................... 15

2.3.4 The Code .............................................................................................................................. 15

2.5 Exercies ....................................................................................................................................... 17

3 Programming—it’s all about values ................................................................................................... 18

3.1 How values are used ................................................................................................................... 18

3.2 Different types of values ............................................................................................................. 19

3.3 Values in Depth ........................................................................................................................... 19

3.3.1 Numeric Values .................................................................................................................... 19

3.3.2 Strings .................................................................................................................................. 19