So AutoIt does not have a good (fast) solution for things like: taking part of an array as a new array adding element(s) at the start or middle of the array In general array manipulation requires a loop, not a fast solution in AutoIt.   I'm thinking using IDispatch to handle variable transfer between normal variables and the raw variant pointers. And fasm to do the array manipulation, importing the OleAut32 functions for variant manipulation.   I ex