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AbteriX:
The best for me on AutoIt3 is that there is an complete german CHM help file !
THAT helps ME alot!
We have an german forum and an wiki for AutoHotKey, but to have
all that descriptions of the commands and feature of such an language
right by the hand as an CHM is an big aid!


And an big thank you for the links  :D

AbteriX:
DIM XX = "versus"
(Sorry mouser, that was just the title of that threads)

a few more background infos:

AutoHotKey XX AutoIt - http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=20897

more of this...
http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?act=Search&CODE=simpleresults&sid=06be18daf0b569658320e5f36ace8679&highlite=AutoHotKey



AutoHotkey XX AutoIt? - http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7630&highlight=autoit

autoIT XX autohotkey - http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4363


Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoHotkey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoit

mouser:
id just like to say i probably should not have ever mentioned the term "autohotkey VS. autoit"
both programs have active communities and seem like fantastic wonderful projects, and i don't in any way mean to put them against each other.  both are great and different people will have different uses for each.

Amadawn:
because they felt that their code was being stolen from them without the proper credit-Amadawn (January 28, 2006, 08:30 PM)
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There are a quite some threads in the Autohotkey forum about this topic. Here's what I learned: Almost all of Authotkey is own code. Some commands use or are based on source code of AutoIt (back then Open Source, so it's no stealing). The author of Autohotkey lists all these few commands somewhere in the forum and gives proper credit. Some external tools, like the compiler, are almost unmodified from AutoIt. Again, proper credit is given. Heck, if I launch the Autohotkey compiler I see a huge "AutoIt" logo...  ;)

What to use? Which one is the better program to use? You decide. Just use what you want.


FWIW, if you want to advertise for AutoIt, code some Coding Snacks. Because of Skrommel's coding snacks I got interested in Autohotkey and now I can't live without this program...
-wr975 (January 29, 2006, 06:02 AM)
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wr975 I did not intend to give AutoHotKey bad press or something like that as I do not know what happened exactly between the two groups of developpers. There is not much talk about it on the AutoIt forums anymore. From what I've been able to learn I think that although the AutoHotKey guys gave AutoIt the proper credit they did not feel that they were getting anything in return for their work (i.e. the AutoHotKey devs did not really contribute much back to AutoIt3). I suspect that perhaps some people felt betrayed when not everyone jumped into the AutoIt3 bandwago. Anyway, that is an old story and as mouser said in the end it is nice that there are two similar tools so that people can choose the one that is best for them. I really like AutoIt3 and I wanted to let you guys know about it :).

I agree that the best way to advertise AutoIt3 is to contribute some code or some programs. The problem is that most of the code I write is very specific to my work and would not be useful for most other people.

But, I can contribute with two guys. If some of you use GPIB for their work, that is, if some of you need to remotelly control from a PC instruments like osciloscopes, signal generators, spectrum analyzers, etc, you can use the "VISA" library that I created for AutoIt3 (and which is included with the default AutoIt installation).

Also, I have a little program that I use to hide/show the Windows Desktop Search floating toolbar by clicking a hotkey. If you are interested I can put it here (mouser, can you tell me how to do that)?

Amadawn:
Wow, I went through some of those threads and I really did not realize how emotionally loaded was this issue! It was not my intention to mix into some problem between the two communities. As I said, I just wanted to let people know about AutoIt3 which I use all the time.

So sorry about this guys! No more posts on this issue from me :). I just hope you give AutoIt3 a try and see if you like it or if it can do something for you.

Cheers!

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