UDF

From AutoIt Wiki

This page is a listing of libraries of user defined functions. These libraries have been written to allow easy integratation into your own script and are a very valuable resource for any programmer.

Another great list of AutoIt wrappers can be found on the forum.

Contents 1 Automation 1.1 Browsers 1.2 Microsoft Office Automation 2 Hardware 3 Information gathering 4 Databases and web connections 5 Internet protocol suite 6 Data compression 7 Encryption and hash 8 Media 8.1 Sound 8.2 3D graphics 9 GUI Additions 9.1 Controls 10 Maths

[edit] Automation

• Java UDF - Creates an access bridge between your application and a Java application. Allowing you to automate some Java applications.

• SAP - SAP business management automation.
• PDFCreator - Automation of PDFCreator allows you to create and manipulate PDF files.
• WiFi - Low level control over your wireless LAN
• Active Directory - Extensive library to control and manipulate the Windows active directory.
• Windows Events - Create your own Windows events.

[edit] Browsers

• Internet Explorer - Everything about Internet explorer can be automated with the IE library supplied with a standard AutoIt install.
• FireFox - A little less support for automation than IE, but still very good.
• Opera - The same as above for Opera. Automate the most common tasks in Opera with the Opera UDF.

[edit] Microsoft Office Automation

• Microsoft Office Word UDF - A way to automate Office Word is included with AutoIt.
• Microsoft Office Excel - Large automation library for Excel.
• Microsoft Office Access - Automation of Access.
• Microsoft Office Outlook - Do CRUD operations on items in Outlook.

[edit] Hardware

• Serial port (COM port) - Requires my comMG.dll (included)

[edit] Information gathering

• Computer information - A general purpose library to get various details about a Windows machine.

[edit] Databases and web connections

• FTP - A FTP library is now included with the AutoIt libraries.
• SQLite - “SQLite is a library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine”
• XML DOM Wrapper - Supports CRUD operations on XML. Including XSL and XPath.
• MySQL - MySQL relational database management system UDF.

[edit] Internet protocol suite

• HTTP - For creating GET and POST requests and submitting them conforming standards.
• POP3 - POP3 library for retrieving email messages. Not compatible with Gmail because it uses SSL.
• POP3 SSL - A POP3 library that's compatible with Gmail. It uses an external executable that must be supplied with your script.
• IRC - A lightweight library for communicating with IRC servers.

[edit] Data compression

• zip - Create ZIP files and unpack ZIP files.
• 7z, zip, gzip, bzip2, tar - More extensive library than the one above. Uses a external DLL that must be provided with the script.

[edit] Encryption and hash

• MD5,SHA1,CRC32,RC4,BASE64,XXTEA - Several encryption and hash functions.
• AES Rijndael - Very fast AES UDF. Support ECB/CBC/CFB/OFB block chiper mode.

[edit] Media

• Simple DirectMedia Layer UDF - Adds support for joysticks, CDs, 2D graphics, timers. See SDL website for more information.
• FreeImage library - Various operations on images, such as rotate, resize, flip.
• Printer controller - Print text in any font, size and colour at any position on the page, draw lines, curves, elipses, pies in any colour, and print images.
• PDF creator

[edit] Sound

• BASS Function Library - Sound and Music via wrappers for Bass, BassEnc, Bass FX, BassSFX, BassAsio and BassCd DLLs

[edit] 3D graphics

• IrrLicht - A 3D graphics engine suitable for creating games.
• au3Irrlicht2 - Another UDF bringing Irrlicht and au3 together. Historically some kind of a follower of the UDF above, technically with a complete different approach.

[edit] GUI Additions

• XSkin - A large library that allows skinning of your GUI and to apply custom skins.
• Modern tray menu - Allows the creation of modern, fancy GUI and tray menus with icons.
• SetOnEvent - Provides an easy way for an event to call functions with parameters.
• Hotkey input control - Create and manage hotkeys that work only for your GUI.

[edit] Controls

• Graph control UDF - Easily create and show bar chart and line charts.
• GUICtrlCreateFinder - Allows you to create a window finder control like the one seen in AutoIt Window Info.

[edit] Maths

• Primes UDF - Many functions dealing with prime number generation and calculations.
• Big number UDF - Make calculations with extremely large numbers that AutoIt normally is not able to support.
• Number base conversion - From, to and between positive bases less than 63 (decimals supported)
• Decimal To fraction - Converts any decimal number to a fraction. Example: 1.2 to 6/5
• Trigonometry math functions - _ATan2(), _Cosh(), _Frexp(), _Hypot(), _Ldexp(), _Logb(), _Sinh(), _Tanh()