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Instant AutoIt Scripting

By : Emilio Aristides de Fez Laso
Book Image

Instant AutoIt Scripting

By: Emilio Aristides de Fez Laso

Overview of this book

<p>AutoIt is a freeware automation language for Microsoft Windows. It can be used to produce utility software for Microsoft Windows and automate common tasks, such as website monitoring, network monitoring, and disk defragging and backup.</p> <p>Instant AutoIt Scripting Essentials How-to provides you with step-by-step recipes to create complex Windows GUI apps. You will ease your workload, program without hassle, and master everyday tasks. You will learn how to automate a wide range of manual tasks in Windows and other programs. Using this book, you will reach a high-level of programming performance in a small span of time. Tweak your apps and enhance your working system beyond your limitations.</p> <p>Instant AutoIt Scripting Essentials How-to is a simple and concise guide that will teach you the essential knowledge necessary to start working with AutoIt. Using numerous examples and short step-by-step recipes on how to solve small problems, this book will help you to automate a very wide range of manual tasks in Windows and other programs, and you will soon realise how easy it is to create exciting programs.</p> <p>The book has multiple examples that explain on AutoIt being a standalone application with no reliance on the runtimes. This book includes 4 levels of programming: the operating system, the windows register, typical user level programs and scripts, and automation of other non-AutoIt apps.</p>
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Chapter 1. Instant AutoIt Scripting

Welcome to Instant AutoIt Scripting. In this book, you will be surprised to see how easy and funny coding could be. You can automate your digital life from the inner side bolts of your PC. AutoIt v3, which is small and self-contained, is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language, and enhances features found in Visual Basic, VBScript, SendKeys, and others.

You can learn to automate tasks, which would otherwise require to be executed one-by-one by a user. You can automate software applications, web pages within a web browser, the shells of operating systems (OS), and each day's repetitive tasks using tiny, compiled, and standalone programs (1 MB), which do not need installers. You can also run interpreted source code files directly. You can read more about AutoIt on Wikipedia at the following link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoIt.