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AutoHotkey Webinar- Using Controls with AHK

Controls in AutoHotkeyVideo Hour 1: High-level overview: Hour 1
Video Hour 2: Q&A: Hour 2

Script Highlight: WinSpy from Alguimist.  Forum version here

SimpleSpy version here

Also, check out all the other tutorials on Controls with AutoHotkey here

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AutoHotkey webinar: Getting text from programs with AutoHotkey

Blue keyboard key labeled Webinar on a white keyboard, next to Ctrl and Menu keys

Video Hour 1:  High Level: Getting text from programs

General ways (there are more) to get text & the order to try them:

  1. Using COM to extract text from programs like: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, IE
  2. Getting Text from PDFs
  3. Using Active Accessibility Viewer & UI Automation
  4. ControlGet
  5. Copy / Paste (when all else fails or when just need a quick solution)A white stress ball with the green AutoHotkey logo being held in a hand, with a laptop keyboard blurred in the background
  6. OCR – Optical Character Recognition

Video Hour 2: Coding and Q&A

Script Highlight: Chrome.ahk by GeekDude

  • Automate Chrome without Selenium
  • Not as robust as COM w/IE but a great start at basic automation
  • Connect to running Chrome (running in Debug mode)
  • Page navigation
  • Get / Set elements & JavaScript Injection
  • Print pages to PDF
  • Capture to Screenshot
  • Some tutorial videos

Resources for getting text from programs

COM– Microsoft’s Component Object Model

Extracting from PDFs

Active Accessibility Viewer & UI Automation

Active Accessibility & UI Automation are built-in Microsoft architecture that can allow you to, programmatically, get text from programs

Let’s see a few examples using:

  • UI Automation via Jethrow
  • Screen Reader – UI Automation by nepter

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ControlGet

On standard Windows controls, you can access them with ControlGet

  • Some things like listboxes, listviews, etc. have some pretty cool capabilities
  • Often newer programs do not use the standard window controls :(

OCR – Optical Character Recognition