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Learning to Script with Autoit V3 Document Last Updated 17 February 2010 Autoit Version 3.3.0.0 Learning to Script with AutoIt V3 Document last updated 17 February 2010 AutoIt Version 3.3.0.0 Original Document: Alex Peters (LxP) http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~apeters/ Updated By: Brett Francis (BrettF) http://signa5.com This document is for you if you are interested in learning to script with AutoIt. Where possible, I will try to assume that you have no prior coding experience and I aim to teach you some good general coding habits, which will be beneficial should you decide to move on to other languages. Table of Contents Acknowledgements ................................................................................................................................. 6 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 7 What Is AutoIt? ................................................................................................................................... 7 Features of AutoIt ............................................................................................................................... 7 A little about this tutorial .................................................................................................................... 7 1 Starting Off ........................................................................................................................................... 8 1.1 Download and Install AutoIt V3 .................................................................................................... 8 1.2 Install SciTE4AutoIt3 ..................................................................................................................... 8 1.3 Know how to access the help file .................................................................................................. 9 1.4 Know what you want to achieve ................................................................................................... 9 1.5 What is contained in this tutorial? ................................................................................................ 9 2 Your First Steps .................................................................................................................................. 10 2.1 Creating and Organizing Script Files ........................................................................................... 10 2.2.1 Organization of Scripts ......................................................................................................... 10 2.1.2 Creating a Script from Explorer ............................................................................................ 10 2.1.3 Creating a Script from SciTE ................................................................................................. 11 2.2 Hello World Example .................................................................................................................. 11 2.2. 1 The Steps ............................................................................................................................. 11 2.2.2 Explanation .......................................................................................................................... 11 2.2.3 Extended Work .................................................................................................................... 12 2.2.4 The Code .............................................................................................................................. 13 2.3 Simple Notepad Automation ...................................................................................................... 13 2.4. 1 The Steps ............................................................................................................................. 13 2.3.2 Explanation .......................................................................................................................... 15 2.3.3 Extended Work .................................................................................................................... 15 2.3.4 The Code .............................................................................................................................. 15 2.5 Exercies ....................................................................................................................................... 17 3 Programming—it’s all about values ................................................................................................... 18 3.1 How values are used ................................................................................................................... 18 3.2 Different types of values ............................................................................................................. 19 3.3 Values in Depth ........................................................................................................................... 19 3.3.1 Numeric Values .................................................................................................................... 19 3.3.2 Strings .................................................................................................................................. 19 LEARNING TO SCRIPT WITH AUTOIT V3 Page 2 3.3.3 Booleans ............................................................................................................................... 20 3.4 Exercises ...................................................................................................................................... 21 4 Arrays of Variables ............................................................................................................................. 22 4.1 Declaring and naming variables .................................................................................................. 22 4.2 The Naming Convention ............................................................................................................. 23 4.3 Assigning variable values ............................................................................................................ 23 4.4 Accessing variable values ............................................................................................................ 23 4.5 Constants .................................................................................................................................... 24 4.6 Macros ........................................................................................................................................ 24 4.7 Arrays .......................................................................................................................................... 26 4.8 Exercises ...................................................................................................................................... 27 5 Functions ............................................................................................................................................ 28 5.1 Example function calls ................................................................................................................ 29 5.1.1 Run() and RunWait() ............................................................................................................ 29 5.1.2 WinWait() ............................................................................................................................. 29 5.1.3 Send() ................................................................................................................................... 30 5.2 Exercises .................................................................................................................................. 31 6 Operators ........................................................................................................................................... 32 6.1 True or False? .............................................................................................................................. 34 True ............................................................................................................................................... 34 False .............................................................................................................................................. 34 6.2 Exercises ...................................................................................................................................... 35 7 Branching ........................................................................................................................................... 36 7.1 Conditional Functions ................................................................................................................. 36 7.1.1 If…Then…Else ....................................................................................................................... 36 7.1.2 Select Case ........................................................................................................................... 36 7.1.3 Switch Case .......................................................................................................................... 36 7.1.4 ContinueCase ....................................................................................................................... 37 7.2 Exercises ...................................................................................................................................... 38 8 Loops
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