A few newbie questions

[beboard]

Hi everybody,

I'm just learning to use AutoIT and I have some questions I can't seem to find the answer for

I was wondering if it would be possible to assign some shortcuts keys to some macros... something like

CTRL+SHIFT+H
mouseclick ... 
mouseclick ... 
send ...
mouseclick ..


CTRL+SHIFT+I
mouseclick ... 
send ...

I need this to run as an application and basically i just want it to send some mouseclicks depending on the shortcuts keys.

Also is there some way to make the script take different actions depending on the active window ?

I'm trying to make a script that will work with an excel macro and basically the excel macro should display a message box with different titles. Can I make the autoIT script read the title of this message box and take appropriate action ?

Thank you in advance for your replies, any help will be much appreciated.

[czardas]

You can use HotKeySet to create hot keys (to run a function). You can check if a window or messagebox is open using WinExists. You can get information such as window title/text using AutoIt Window Info tool (found in the start menu). You can read text from a window using WinGetText. I suggest you start by trying a simple project to learn how to use each of these functions and the AutoIt Window Info tool. There are also some Excel UDFs that could be useful, but I don't know much about them.

[beboard]

You can use HotKeySet to create hot keys (to run a function). You can check if a window or messagebox is open using WinExists. You can get information such as window title/text using AutoIt Window Info tool (found in the start menu). You can read text from a window using WinGetText. I suggest you start by trying a simple project to learn how to use each of these functions and the AutoIt Window Info tool. There are also some Excel UDFs that could be useful, but I don't know much about them.

Could you please give me an example on how to assign a hotkey to a series of mouse clicks ? It would solve most of my problems thanks for the reply

While 1
    MouseClick("left", 384, 544, 1)
    MouseClick("left", 338, 663, 1)
    Send("install")
    MouseClick("left", 481, 552, 1)
    MouseMove(550, 592)
    MouseDown("left")
    MouseMove(576, 595)
    MouseUp("left")
    MouseClick("left", 618, 545, 1)
    MouseMove(553, 615)
WEnd

How do I make my script do this when I press Alt+Ctrl+s ? I have more codes like this and I want to assign to each of them a hotkey.

[somdcomputerguy]

There is examples in the Helpfile for just about every command.

[beboard]

There is examples in the Helpfile for just about every command.

I was trying for so long and thought it's no possible even with the help file, I just noticed I was using the wrong syntax... it's working now

[ludocus]

You should use:

Send('^!s')
;^ = CTRL
;! = ALT
;s = s

ludocus

[somdcomputerguy]

I was trying for so long and thought it's no possible even with the help file, I just noticed I was using the wrong syntax... it's working now

Alright, glad you got it.