Category: AutoHotKey

In this AutoHotkey tutorial Isaias Baez shows us how we can use a script Lexicos shared in 2015 to communicated not only between AutoHotkey scripts but access AutoHotkey methods/variables from other programs! COM objects are amazingly powerful!  Being able to leverage dot-notation syntax was one of the main reasons we created our Objects / Classes course.  In this video Isaias walks us through how to setup the COM object and connect to the two of them.  This is an amazing example of how you don’t have to be on the “cutting edge” to be using very powerful approaches!

You can get the files Isaias uses here

Sharing AutoHotkey Variables, Methods, and data between scripts & other programming languages

the Inno Setup tool is an amazingly customizable setup tool you can use for creating a custom setup tool

Jean Lalonde, JnLlnd on AHK forum, lead us through a great tutorial.   Thank you Jean!  And thanks for the Quick Access Popup real-world examples!

Here are links to the Homepage, Download, Help
Jean provided these files from his demonstration

Overview of Inno Setup Tool

Simple Example

• Constants

–values used in your directives

–Examples:

• {app} the application directory
• {group} the path to the Start Menu folder
• #define

–create variables used in your directives

–See Inno Setup Preprocessor command

• [Setup]

–global settings used by the installer and uninstaller

• [Files]

–files to install on the user’s system

• [Icons]

–shortcuts Setup is to create in the Start Menu

Intermediate Example

• #define

–GetEnv() to retrieve environment variables

• [Setup]

–Adding more info (OutputDir, SetupIconFile, LicenseFile, etc.)

• [Tasks]

–Allow user to select tasks to execute

• [Icons]

–Adding menu item linking to an URL

–Adding Uninstall menu item

• [Dirs]

–Create a directory on user’s system

• [INI]

–Create or change values in an ini file

• [Run]

–Applications to launch after installation

• [Languages]

–Select installer task, determine values in ini file

• [CustomMessages]

–Messages that can be translated

Real Life example

• [Registry]

–Register the application in Windows Registry

–Create context menu entries

• [Code]

–Pascal language

–Code functions controling the setup flow

Example: ShouldSkipPage