Easily create & update GUI controls in AutoHotKey

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This video discusses how to use some of the build in functionality to Easily create & update GUI controls in AutoHotKey. Specifically I discuss the use of Margins, Sections and Previous controls. After watching this video you’ll see GUIs are not nearly as hard in AutoHotKey as you had thought.

Script used in video:

 
Gui, +AlwaysOnTop +resize
Gui, color,aqua ;keep on top & allow resize
 
Gui, Add, Text,        , my text1
Gui, Add, Text,        , my text2
Gui, Add, Text,        , my text3
Gui, Add, Text,section , my text4
Gui, Add, Text,ys      , my text5
Gui, Add, Text,        , my text6
Gui, Add, Text,        , my text7
Gui, Add, Text,        , my text8
 
Gui, Show, w600 h400
;******************************
Browser_Forward::
RAlt::Reload
#SingleInstance, Force

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTHFpfnXdbs

Excellent SciTE editor video documenting powerful features

SciTE editor

SciTE Editor demonstration

If you frequently use tools like Notepad, Notepad++,  Textpad, etc. I highly recommend you give the SciTE editor a try! Here is a great video demonstrating it’s powerful features and how it can save you a ton of time!  It is highly customizable (but there is a learning curve to making the tweaks to your user settings.  I love it because I have the property files (which provide IntelliSense & syntax highlighting for ~80 languages)

scite editor

The editor is free and can be downloaded from here.  If you’re using AutoHotKey you can get SciTE4AutoHotkey built by fincs here.

 

 

Example of Web Scraping- Automating Exporting of contacts from Lexis Nexis

Example of Web Scraping

Example of Web Scraping– Automating the Exporting of Data from Lexis Nexis

A few years back Lexis Nexis had access to Jigsaw (a sales list provider).  They had built in restrictions which allowed for exporting up to 1,000 contacts at a time.

Using AutoHotKey I was able to automate the exporting of contacts from Lexis Nexis into a great format.   All-told I exported over 4 million business contacts including their Name, job title, job function, email address, phone number, company name, company revenue, company NAIC code and SIC codes and much more!  It was quite a score and I was in love with Web Scraping  from then on!

Example of Web Scraping with AutoHotkey