Instant AutoIt Scripting: Learn how to master AutoIt, an open source framework for automating Windows GUI

Learn how to master AutoIt, an open source framework for automating Windows GUI

Key Features

Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results

Read and write apps instantly using the AutoIt freeware programming language

Execute or compile scripts and share your own Unic software

Organise and automate mundane and repetitive tasks

Automate browser portables, external electronics, and your operating system

Book DescriptionAutoIt is a freeware automation language for Microsoft Windows. It can be used to produce utility software for Microsoft Windows and automate common tasks, such as website monitoring, network monitoring, and disk defragging and backup.

Instant AutoIt Scripting Essentials How-to provides you with step-by-step recipes to create complex Windows GUI apps. You will ease your workload, program without hassle, and master everyday tasks. You will learn how to automate a wide range of manual tasks in Windows and other programs. Using this book, you will reach a high-level of programming performance in a small span of time. Tweak your apps and enhance your working system beyond your limitations.

Instant AutoIt Scripting Essentials How-to is a simple and concise guide that will teach you the essential knowledge necessary to start working with AutoIt. Using numerous examples and short step-by-step recipes on how to solve small problems, this book will help you to automate a very wide range of manual tasks in Windows and other programs, and you will soon realise how easy it is to create exciting programs.

The book has multiple examples that explain on AutoIt being a standalone application with no reliance on the runtimes. This book includes 4 levels of programming: the operating system, the windows register, typical user level programs and scripts, and automation of other non-AutoIt apps.What you will learn

Install AutoIt and its various utilities

Automate external non-AutoIt Apps

Generate code using macro programming

Create Batch apps

Automate Windows installers

Learn how to manage databases

Understand Regular Expressions

Learn to make changes in your computer via Screen Pixel Triggers.

Automate Internet Explorer, Skype, and Microsoft Office, and control electronic AutoIt appliances

Who this book is forInstant AutoIt Scripting Essentials How-to is for beginners who wish to know more about automation and programming, system administration developers who intent to automate/manage clusters and servers, and for computer programmers who want to control any PC to create seamless automation apps.