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Re:Windows Desktop Application Automation Using AutoIt by otterpro on Saturday June 16, 2018 @05:15PM (#17329470)
I've been using AutoHotkey as well as AutoIt in the past. If I need keyboard macro, I use AHK. But if I need automation that interacts with other apps, I use AutoIt. It's fairly easy to get started writing scripts, but I've never liked the language/syntax of either AHK or AutoIt. One thing I wish I could do this is to write everything in Python, Lua, etc...
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Re:Windows Desktop Application Automation Using AutoIt by mappu on Saturday June 16, 2018 @08:44PM (#17330319)
http://www.sikuli.org/ is a crossplatform Python equivalent (and IDE with built-in UI capturing).

There's also https://github.com/go-vgo/robotgo for the Go world.

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Re:Windows Desktop Application Automation Using AutoIt by skymt on Saturday June 16, 2018 @06:05PM (#17329724)
Work on modernizing AutoHotkey's syntax has been ongoing for years, and the v2 alpha makes huge (backwards-incompatible) steps to make the syntax simpler and more consistent.

https://autohotkey.com/v2/v2-changes.htm

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Re:Windows Desktop Application Automation Using AutoIt by mappu on Saturday June 16, 2018 @08:45PM (#17330323)
I wish NSIS would do this too.
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Re:Windows Desktop Application Automation Using AutoIt by r0ash on Saturday June 16, 2018 @08:12PM (#17330209)
You can use AutoIt's Python wrapper, its somewhat reliable and I use it in automation in production.
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Re:Windows Desktop Application Automation Using AutoIt by degenerate on Saturday June 16, 2018 @08:31PM (#17330281)
This? https://pypi.org/project/PyAutoIt/

Curious if you have tried the other method (I have not): https://stackoverflow.com/a/9371563

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Re:Windows Desktop Application Automation Using AutoIt by r0ash on Sunday June 17, 2018 @12:36AM (#17330891)
No, I've used just first method and it was working fine. Btw second one seems more easier to transfer pure AutoIt code to Python due to same function names.
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Re:Windows Desktop Application Automation Using AutoIt by askvictor on Saturday June 16, 2018 @07:57PM (#17330162)
Strangely enough, from reading the forums, it seems that AHK's syntax makes sense for non-programmers, while programmers seem to dislike it.
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