The Very Basics of AutoIt
Matheus C. Carvalho · 2016
AutoIt is a scripting language for the Windows operating system based on the seminal BASIC programming language. It stretches the concept of gluing to its maximum. An important implication of its extreme gluing approach is that AutoIt can use as instructions the solutions that have been found by other people for many problems. AutoIt is a full-featured structured programming language, which uses the same logic that makes programming languages like C#, Java, and Visual Basic very powerful tools. AutoIt runs on Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, or 10. It can also run on some previous versions of Windows (95, NT4.0, and 2000), but it may not be fully functional. SciTE is a very-well-crafted editor for AutoIt full of useful features. Similarly to AutoIt, AutoHotKey (AHK) can automate mouse clicks and keyboard inputs. AutoIt has many instructions like MouseClick. The proper name for them is functions that are blocks of instructions that performs well-defined task.