Howdy,
A few week’s back, during a Friday AHK Hero call, we showed clients how they can “pause“ any executable. I then extracted the video which you can see here.
But wait, that’s not the best part!
When I went to share the above video I tried finding a link on the AHK forum to the code we used. Surprisingly all I could find was something similar in v1.
But the more I thought about it, the more I realized there was other functionality that we’d want to build-into it.
So I decided to use this as a great way to teach the “right way” to develop code. (I say that somewhat in jest)….
We outlined pseudo-code about the goals of what we would want to do then Isaias began developing the code explaining his thoughts along the way.
Not only did he teach about writing solid code, he discussed why we would want a class over function as well as other great nuggets.
It turned into an amazing educational session which the attending Hero members thoroughly enjoyed!
In fact, many people mentioned the training session was a “lead magnet” for tutoring as well as “done for you” work because Isaias is “THAT GOOD!”
Don’t believe me, don’t worry; I brought the receipts❗
You can watch the entire session here
Learning To Program in AHK v2 – Amazing lesson from an AHK Hero Extract
Enjoy! Trust me; you’ll thank me later!
Now on with the show…
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Various ways to Inform Users with GUIs
During an AHK Hero call last week we were asked an interesting question about being able to display information where the “clock” is in the user’s system tray.
This fit really well into a topic we had planned to discuss about the various ways we can present information to a user with GUIs. I extracted the clip here.
One way we prefer is to use our AHK v2 NotifyClass.
What are your options to Inform users: And which one should you use & When to use them
Finding Variables in a Complex GUI
During another AHK hero call, a hero member was asking about finding the location of a variable in the amazing FindText Function.
Isaias talked through the “right way” to do this however I also showed how, by using a word boundary with RegEx, it can also be done very quickly.
Check it out here and you tell me; Which way do YOU prefer❓
Finding Variables in a Complex GUI
When did you find AutoHotkey❓
A while back I happened to find “Robotype” which was the tool I used for HotStrings before I found AutoHotkey. I looked up when the version I had was released and it gave me a better idea when I started using AutoHotkey.
I also talk through how I was using Hotkeys way before AutoHotkey.
Check it out in this video.
How long have you been using AutoHotkey? And what tool did it replace for you❓
How & When I started using AutoHotkey / Automation
Easily Unsubscribe from emails in Gmail
Gmail recently added a new service to make it easier to unsubscribe to emails.
I show just how easy it is in this video.
Googles New Manage subsriptions tool
Improving People’s Lives: Story #56
This week Irfan finished merging together our client’s separate ahk scripts that Automated the French and English version of a program.
We used to have two, completely separate AutoHotkey files & git repositories.
This meant it was a lot of work to maintain because, any update we made on one, had to be made on the other.
Now, that all GOES AWAY!
And, more importantly, their customers now get to use the same ahk program regardless of the language they are using (oh, btw we also added Spanish❗)
Huge game changer for our client and their customers!
What we’re reading
- Why I Prefer Watching Plex over my physical Media collection
- Panic Button that closes all my Apps on Windows 11
- A simple to do list to manage it all
- Gmail’s new unsubscribe tool
AI / Chat GPT-3 News / Usage
- Amazon and Anthropic are starting an Agent marketplace!
- Prompt to use every Monday Morning
- How to Avoid bad buys on Amazon.com
⚡️Productivity tips:
In VS Code you can hit Ctrl+\ to Split the editor
A spot of Humor: Pretty funny!
Donald Trump on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
What we utomated this week with AutoHotkey #93
This week I walked through some cool things I did both with AI and manually with Search/Replace in MS Word.
You can check it out in this video.
93 What we Automated with AutoHotkey #93
Client’s say…
“You guys changed my life! Thanks man” — Marrion Mentoor
AHK Hero
Consider joining the AHK Hero club! Members receive 25% off courses, consultations, tutoring, done for you project work, etc. Currently we have over 436 hours of recordings teaching AutoHotkey that is exclusive to AHK Hero members❗
You can watch 1 hour a day for a year and not repeat content! That’s a lot of AHK Learning!
During this Friday’s call we’re planning to discuss:
- Help AHK Hero Members with their Questions & Code
- Craziest ways to control your game
- Finish Suspender Class
- Using MARK: comments in VScode for minimap (User interface)
- Update to Clipster– wait for clipboard format
- Need to fix the file copy and RTF
- Debug configuration – Switching between scripts in VS Code
- Making a non-Editable field, editable
- Aggregating Time (hours, minutes, seconds)
They also have access to exclusive & pre-released content and a 3 hours a week where we help people with their AHK issues (the Saturday calls are geared towards people new to AutoHotkey.)
️ Quotable quotes
- Time is linear; Success doesn’t have to be — Joe Glines
- If every request is a five alarm fire, it’s your house that’s gonna go up in flames — Amy Landino
- The thing most people like least is a mirror — Dan Kennedy
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