How to make hotkey tool with AutoHotkey

15th October 2011 Tags: tutorials autohotkey coding dota

Hello guys! Im going to tell u how to create simple autohotkey script. It will be some advanced version of EasyPack. It will include 3 steps.

1. Creating Basic Tool
2. Adding interface
3. Adding special functions

NOTE: Autohotkey script will work only in windows.

You will need:

1) Autohotkey
2) some text editor

Step 1 : Creating Basic Tool

To create autohotkey script simply rightlick mouse - create autohotkey script or save text file in .ahk extension.

Header

First of all we need make some changes in the options of the script so in the header we will put this preferences:

#SingleInstance force
#HotkeyInterval 0
#InstallKeybdHook
#UseHook On
#MaxThreads 25
SetBatchLines, -1
SetKeyDelay , -1, -1
SetDefaultMouseSpeed, 0
SetMouseDelay, -1
Process, priority, , High
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%
#NoEnv
#ifWinActive, ahk_class Warcraft III

Setting Keys

Now we will read the .ini file. If it doesnt exist we will get default hotkeys (alt+q; alt+w, alt+a, alt+s, alt+z, alt+x). I used variables h1-h7 for future purposes (detecting same variable). I would like all hotkeys iniread and hotkey via loop, but for better understanding I will make loop only for item hotkeys and for pause script I will do it manually. To do that we will read our ini file, and if key not a blank - we will create hotkey This is how to do in the loop. Mb it is a bit advanced for you now.

  loop {
  IniRead, h%A_Index%, %A_WorkingDir%\EasyPack2.ini, Inventory, item%A_Index%, %A_Space%
  if % h%A_Index%
  Hotkey, % h%A_Index%, a%A_Index%
  if A_Index=6
	break
  }

Here how to simply make hotkey

IniRead, h7, %A_WorkingDir%\EasyPack2.ini, Other, Pause, Home
  if h7
  Hotkey, %h7%, a7

Basic labels Here our labels. I used names a - action so in next steps we can easily put it all to the loop

a1:
send {vk67}
return

a2:
send {vk68}
return

a3:
send {vk64}
return

a4:
send {vk65}
return

a5:
send {vk61}
return

a6:
send {vk62}
return

a7:
suspend
return

Full Code:

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#SingleInstance force
#HotkeyInterval 0
#InstallKeybdHook
#UseHook On
#MaxThreads 25
SetBatchLines, -1
SetKeyDelay , -1, -1
SetDefaultMouseSpeed, 0
SetMouseDelay, -1
Process, priority, , High
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%
#NoEnv
#ifWinActive, ahk_class Warcraft III

  loop {
  IniRead, h%A_Index%, %A_WorkingDir%\EasyPack2.ini, Inventory, item%A_Index%, %A_Space%
  if % h%A_Index%
  Hotkey, % h%A_Index%, a%A_Index%
  if A_Index=6
	break
  }
  
  IniRead, h7, %A_WorkingDir%\EasyPack2.ini, Other, Toggle, Home
  if h7
  Hotkey, %h7%, a7
return
  
a1:
send {vk67}
return

a2:
send {vk68}
return

a3:
send {vk64}
return

a4:
send {vk65}
return

a5:
send {vk61}
return

a6:
send {vk62}
return

a7:
suspend
return

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