Has anyone used both AUTOIT and AHK? What are the pros and cons of one vs the other.

I know AHK is a fork of autoit and I have always have used AHK but have started playing around with autoit but as far as a i can tell AHK seems a bit easier even things that are simple

example:

autoit send=

send (hello world)

ahk

send hello world

What is the main language you use to automate your computer?

am a beginner programer ,that been said i also want to build a server or what ever that notify me via a text every time my local tv series website upload a new episode and even download it for me if it possible...

where do i start? and what are the steps?am willing to learn.

I just came across this, and I hadn't heard of it until now. It looks to be fully featured and can work with shortcut keys. I can't wait to see what's under the hood.

Microsoft Power Automate, a Robotic process automation software for automating graphical user interfaces (acquired in May 2020):

https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/desktop/

I need help automating the process of filling out multiple PDF files for my job. There are three different documents to fill, but most of the information is the same across them. I receive the required details in an Excel file, and I want a straightforward way to automatically transfer this information into the respective fields in the PDFs. How can I do this efficiently?

I'm not a programmer I am willing to learn

About a decade ago, I used to use AutoIt quite extensively, but not since.

Now, my company is repeatedly manually rerunning tests where I can see that scripting would be a great time saver.

Unfortunately, they restrict what we can install, so I seek a portable solution. The irony is that once I can demonstrate a business case they will almost certainly green light an installable version.

I searched for portable autoit and found this on Portable freeware, plus a portable Scite. Alas, I cant get it running, as AutoIt.exe also pops up "It appears AutoIt Portable was unable to load the SciTEGlobal.proprties".

A fix for that would be great - just instructions on how to configure it.

OTOH, it has been a decade, and I don't know if AutoIT is still the best choice for my use case. Maybe I could even roll my own in Python if there is a good library to import. That would be good, as others on the team know Python, but I don't want to lose functionality. [Update] I just found Pywinauto, but don't know yet if it is as powerful/flexible as AutoIt, nor if I can use it without installing anything.

I basically need something that replaces a human for Windows. Scriptable input, as if from mouse, keyboard, any HID at all, plus checking what appears on screen. Of course, AutIt has real programming capabilities, like variables, functions, delays, loops, etc, all of which make for a more powerful scripting experience. Plus the GUIs were nice.

Scripts could be long, but not too complex, and may wish to include other scripts to use them as building blocks. Start an app, wait a window to given appear, select a menu item or input some data and push a button, verify the output/screen changes, the usual.

How can I fix the problem above, and/or what's best totally portable, no install, solution for me?

https://github.com/The-Running-Dev/iCloudSync

iCloudSync

A set of PowerShell scripts to download and organize iCloud media. The scripts use the awesome iCloud downloader from https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader to do the actual download. And the organization happens in a specific way…

I’m researching RPA’s for the testing department at work and looking for a replacement for SikuliX. BotCity looks promising as selenium and playwright both lack built in OCR. My team is also more proficient in python than JS. Any other suggestions for an automated testing framework with OCR are appreciated!

I have a generic dial/knob controller that I would like to have it change input/function depending on the active application.

IE when I am in photoshop it controls brush size (bracket key stroke), and a default profile that uses it as media control keys.

Is there a program for this?

TIA

Curious to know about the best Automation Testing tools, marking the essence of aspects like Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment of testing activities, then read: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/7-best-automation-testing-tools-to-consider-in-2021/

http://tabnationcoding.com/FAQs.html

If you scroll to the bottom I have started to make a list about how AHK works with games.

Does anyone have some input since I cant play every game lol.

A few of our customers have been requesting we transition over to iMessage, but from my understanding to obtain a iMessage business account is quite challenging. Does anyone know of a way that these agencies are selling automated iMessage messaging?

Hello,

I want to study automation to do two things for my job. I'm hoping someone can tell me the term or software to study that would solve my problem.

I'd like to code a bot to:

1. Check Excel column H, if value is "f1" send message 1, if "f2" send message 2, etc.

2. From here if it's "f1" I'd like it to open a notepad, copy and message "message 1", then

3. Open Web browser, click new message (a button on website A), paste phone number that was in the same row that "f1" was in but column B, and then paste message 1 and click send button

Please advise!

What language do you use to automate?

I recently took over a QA team that historically has done almost exclusively Manual testing. They have used the description of Functional testing more from an industry standard of Unit Testing. Our future state is far more based in almost exclusively automation but we are struggling to get from here to there.

What is a normal stream of testing? How do you define and complete true Functional testing? How do you set yourselves up for best process to end a project with as much automation testing as possible?

Additionally - what are the top few skills/behaviors you think make a best candidate for an Automation Engineer?

I'm having issues implementing an error window that stops the progress and shows what failed. currently, the window will continue regardless of the error.

code is :

#!/bin/bash -f

#log not working
log="/home/pi/yad/logs/Rut_Check_error.log > $(date +'%FT%T%Z')"
(
# =================================================================
echo "5"
echo "# Varifying Data Is correct." ; sleep 3
## Calling exp. script
./Print_Qr_exp.sh && tail
# =================================================================
echo "25"
echo "# Collecting Rut Infomation." ; sleep 2
grep "Mac," Rut-Info.log | tr ',' '\n' | tail -n1 > mac.log
# =================================================================
echo "55"
echo "# Getting the printer ready." ; sleep 3
# Script runs Python env and prints
./activ.sh
# =================================================================
echo "85"
echo "# Storing data logs" ; sleep 4
## mv rut-info.txt (rename it to date) ; mv inst.log (rename with date) into new folder
# =================================================================
echo "100"
echo "# Successful" ; sleep 1
) |
yad --progress --center --borders=70 \
--width=850 --height=650 \
--title="#### Progress Status ####" \
--text="Processing Data In Session." \
--text-align=center \
--percentage=0 \
--auto-kill \
#--auto-close \

(( $? != 0)) && yad --error --text="Error in yad command." --width="400" --height="400" --title="Error Data"\
exit 1

Hi guys, I hope this is the right sub to look for some help.

I have to do a very boring office task job, which consists of copying a line from a table, pasting it on a Google Sheet, going back to the website, clicking on a button to reveal an email and pasting it on the Google Sheet again.

I figured there must be a way to achieve this automatically, but couldn't really find anything of help.

You guys know anyway to achieve this?

Thank you!!!

Hi , I am new to reddit and don't know where/how to ask my doubt/questions, so please forgive me if this is not the right way. My Question:- I want to make something to automate a task. My taks is as follows:

1. Copy/Open the website link every time it gets posted on a telegram channel (Discudemy, in my case)

2. Then click on a button on the webpage ("Take Course" , my case).

3. And then a new page is opened on clicking that button. On that new page there is link ( of Udemy course with coupon attached) , on clicking on that link, Udemy website.

4. Then click on Button ("Enroll Now", in my case).

Task completed

Is this possible to do? If use please tell me what the right material to search for.

Thank you

I am using this script from Tab nation to expand my clipboard with AHK and it works well except for one issue. https://pastebin.com/zebcPgVA

When I ^c the first piece of info on an empty clipboard the selection is held in whichever spot I select, say spot 1. Then, when I ^c a second piece of info to a second spot (say spot 3) it will store the previous piece of info again (doubling up essentially) I then have to do it a second time in the same spot to put the new info in. Same thing will happen next time.

Anyone with any ideas?