my basic script wont work

[adam51]

hi, im fairly new to autoit, ive been watching youtube videos to learn, I have successfully been able to do some basic commands but 2 of the codes that I have tried to do have not worked. I have checked and checked again but there seems to be nothing different from my code to the persons on the youtube video and theirs is working fine for them, 

Global $message $name
$ name = "adam"
$ message = "hello"
MsgBox(0,"title", "my name is, "$ name")

this is one of the scripts, any ideas please?

[kylomas]

adam51,

If you are not using SciTE ownload and install the FULL version.  Run your script in SciTE and it will help you with these errors.

kylomas

[Subz]

@adam51 Welcome to AutoIt forums, highly recommend looking at AutoIt help file as it has examples for almost every function, it will also show you the correct syntax/format for coding in Autoit.  For example this is how your code should look, note:

• No spaces between $ and variable name
• Use & to join/concatenate two or more strings together

Anyway I hope that helps get you started, happy coding.

Global $sName = "adam"
Global $sMessage = "hello"
MsgBox(0,"title", $sMessage & " my name is, " & $sName)

 

[adam51]

thanks guys. out of interest, why the "s" after "$" as in the help files on msgbox, I could not find it in there?

[adam51]

this is where I got this coding from. so does his work because he has the full version?

[Subz]

Just good coding practice, $sVar implies variable is a String, $aVar would imply an Array etc...  The following wiki link will help.

https://www.autoitscript.com/wiki/Best_coding_practices

[adam51]

I get it, thanks, I hope I will get better quickly

[Subz]

Regards the video, no his information is correct, you probably want to watch the video in fullscreen so you can actually see the code being written, this is his output from the video:

Global $message, $name

$name = "Wesley"
$message = "Hello and welcome"

MsgBox(0,"My title", "My name is " & $name)