@wetsmellydog: Thanks for your thanks. I cannot take credit for this as being "all my own work" though!
I actually lifted some AHK code from somewhere else (I forget where), and then later - after taking the time to discover/learn more about AHK - I simplified and modified the code to suit my particular requirements. So what you see is what I ended up with.
The sources I used were:
These are all good. The tutorials I came across were very helpful.
As an encouragement, I would suggest that you might pick it up quite quickly if you have no techo background to cloud your thinking with preconceptions.
You might think it would help to have a techo background, but sometimes I am not so sure.
For example, take my case: Having been introduced to computer programming via a low-level programming language used for assembler programming on mainframe computers years ago, I have always had difficulty changing my thinking to use any higher-level languages. It was thus difficult for me when I later had to adapt and learn to program in the programming language FORTRAN (which has to be compiled before execution), but when I learned the BASIC language it seemed quite foreign (it is not compiled, but runs through an interpreter at run-time). Years later, I had similar difficulty wrapping my mind around a scripting language (I think it was called "Telix") to control and manipulate data flowing between the PC serial port and a modem (driven by the Hayes AT command set).
So, when I came across AHK, though it at least had a degree of familiarity in its general structure, I had to push to one side everything that I had previously learned, lest it get in the way of my understanding this new thing.
You might not have that difficulty, from the sound of things.
Interestingly, from what I have read, a lot of the PC viruses over the years are apparently thought to have been developed by "script-kiddies" - virgins whose first PC programming language was a scripting language.
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