Instant AutoIt Scripting

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

Overview

• 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

In Detail

AutoIt 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 from this book

• 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

Approach

Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. This is a Packt Instant How-to guide, which provides concise and clear recipes for getting started with AutoIt.

Who this book is written for

Instant 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.

學習如何掌握AutoIt，一個用於自動化Windows GUI的開源框架。

概述：
- 立即學習新知識！一本短小、快速、專注的指南，能立即產生效果。
- 使用AutoIt免費軟體編程語言，即時閱讀和撰寫應用程式。
- 執行或編譯腳本，並分享您自己的Unic軟體。
- 組織和自動化乏味和重複的任務。
- 自動化瀏覽器便攜、外部電子設備和您的操作系統。

詳細內容：
AutoIt是一種用於Microsoft Windows的免費自動化語言。它可用於製作Microsoft Windows的實用軟體，並自動化常見任務，例如網站監控、網絡監控、磁碟碎片整理和備份。

《Instant AutoIt Scripting Essentials How-to》提供了逐步指南，以創建複雜的Windows GUI應用程式。您將輕鬆完成工作，無需煩惱，並掌握日常任務。您將學習如何在Windows和其他程式中自動化各種手動任務。使用本書，您將在短時間內達到高水準的程式設計性能。調整您的應用程式，超越限制，增強您的工作系統。

《Instant AutoIt Scripting Essentials How-to》是一本簡單明瞭的指南，將教您開始使用AutoIt所需的基本知識。通過大量示例和短小的逐步解決問題的食譜，本書將幫助您在Windows和其他程式中自動化各種手動任務，並且您很快就會意識到創建令人興奮的程式是多麼容易。

本書包含多個示例，解釋了AutoIt作為獨立應用程式而無需依賴運行時的特點。本書包括4個程式設計層次：操作系統、Windows註冊表、典型的用戶級程式和腳本，以及對其他非AutoIt應用程式的自動化。

從本書中您將學到：
- 安裝AutoIt及其各種工具
- 自動化外部非AutoIt應用程式
- 使用巨集編程生成程式碼
- 創建批次應用程式
- 自動化Windows安裝程式
- 學習如何管理資料庫
- 理解正則表達式
- 通過屏幕像素觸發器在計算機上進行更改
- 自動化Internet Explorer、Skype和Microsoft Office，並控制電子AutoIt設備

方法：
充滿實用的逐步指令和清晰的解釋，針對最重要和最有用的任務。這是Packt的《Instant How-to》指南，提供了簡潔明確的食譜，讓您快速入門AutoIt。

本書適合對自動化和程式設計有興趣的初學者，系統管理開發人員希望自動化/管理集群和伺服器，以及想要控制任何PC以創建無縫自動化應用程式的電腦程式設計師。