Posted August 05, 2022
Timboli: AHK is basically something created by a breakaway developer from AutoIt during the v2 days. You could call it the bastard child of AutoIt, and it certainly isn't held in the same high regard as AutoIt, and certainly nowhere near as good as v3.
AHK is something script kiddies use to make bots, especially game bots. Jon the creator of AutoIt was not pleased with that breakaway, and changed the licensing model thereafter for the source. AHK at times has given AutoIt a bad name because of its association, and unjustly so. Microsoft even used AutoIt for roll out scripts at one point.
For those who don't know, AutoIt stands for Automate It, not Auto IT. It is a great scripting language that can be compiled to an executable if you wish (like my programs). It is Windows only.
Curious, though i used AHK quite frequently. From the features available and able to use DLL calls i figured it was a way to extend features of Windows, like i could right-click the minimize and it would go to the tray instead, even on things that wouldn't want to minimize. Nice scripts. AHK is something script kiddies use to make bots, especially game bots. Jon the creator of AutoIt was not pleased with that breakaway, and changed the licensing model thereafter for the source. AHK at times has given AutoIt a bad name because of its association, and unjustly so. Microsoft even used AutoIt for roll out scripts at one point.
For those who don't know, AutoIt stands for Automate It, not Auto IT. It is a great scripting language that can be compiled to an executable if you wish (like my programs). It is Windows only.
Heh, one of my more fun projects was connecting zlib and my own UU64 code, then typing in and letting it compress and feed output so i could see live compression and how it looked. Could probably do it again if i tried.
Timboli: NOTE - Script kiddies also use AutoIt for bots, but they get no support from the AutoIt Forum, unlike AHK forums which tend to have an open slather anything goes approach.
I've written a few, and I've helped on the forums; though most of my work was helping with regex issues and telling people not to reinvent basic auto-clickers for games. Though the bots/tools i wrote were to greatly simply work, not necessarily cheat. Too bad those days are over... good money on the project I'd written it for (and no, nothing malware or the like).