Book Updates

Second Edition of the New Beginner’s Guide Includes More Windows Program Automation

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Two New AutoHotkey PC Software Automation Chapters in the Second Edition of Jack’s New Beginner’s Guide to AutoHotkey

AHKNewCover200In the course of editing Jack’s Motley Assortment of AutoHotkey Tips, I discovered two chapters discussing Windows program automation which long ago I had intended to add to the AutoHotkey Beginner’s Guide. My bad. I have now fixed that omission and added them to the Second Edition. The new chapters appear as follows:

Chapter Seventeen: Automate Any Program in Windows, Part I (New in Second Edition)

  • Use AutoHotkey to Automate Your Favorite Windows Programs
  • AutoHotkey Works with Any Program
  • Automating Program Menus
  • Using Menu Shortcut Keys
  • Cascading Menus
  • Navigating Pop-up Windows
  • Click to Success!
  • Finding AutoHotkey Key Names

Chapter Eighteen: Automate Any Program in Windows: Part II (New in Second Edition)

  • Find the Hidden Names of Program Controls to Automate Windows Applications
  • Using Control Names to Automate Programs
  • Finding Control Names
  • Control Commands
  • Less Code with ControlSetText Command
  • Save As… Dialogue

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A New Hotstring Trick and Converting Dates in Documents into DateTime Stamps (Coming Soon!)

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Making a List of Future Blogs While Sequestered

ProgrammingRobotRight now, the massive book of motley AutoHotkey tips consumes the vast majority of my time. Therefore, I have less blogging time. However, I don’t want my lack of blogs to make anyone think I sit idle. In the course of the current task at hand, I’ve accumulated even more topics which I need to blog about: Continue reading →

Old ComputorEdge E-Books Customers Get New AutoHotkey Book Bundle Discounts

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Have You Ever Purchased Any AutoHotkey E-Books at ComputorEdge E-Books?

You Can Recycle Those Same Dollars When
Upgrading to the AutoHotkey Mega Library Bundle!

Any dollars you previously spent on AutoHotkey books at ComputorEdge E-Books qualify as discounts toward the current complete AutoHotkey Mega Bundle. Whether you purchased only one AutoHotkey book four years ago or last year’s seven-book bundle, you can get a dollar-for-dollar reduction on the price of the entire nine-book AutoHotkey Mega Bundle—all books, all e-book formats. Continue reading →

A Trick for Inserting Next Friday’s Date into Any Document (AutoHotkey Tip)

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An AutoHotkey Technique for Determining Date for Any Coming Day of the Week, Plus a Pop-up for Picking Future Weekdays

“Do You Know Next Friday’s Date?”

We record upcoming events on our monthly calendars, but we live one week at a time. Most people work Monday through Friday and relax on Saturday and Sunday. If someone gives us a date for an occasion, we ask, “What day is that?”—meaning “Give me the day of the week.”

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Working on a New AutoHotkey Book

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Compiling Material for My Biggest Book Yet!

I’ve started bringing together the parts for my next AutoHotkey book. I have over thirty AutoHotkey tips in the form of previous (no longer published) articles I wrote for the old ComputorEdge Magazine and another thirty, or so, I thought there would be pie!I’ve written since that time on various topics without a specific theme. As I organize the chapters, I see various motifs running through them. I plan to include numerous recent insights as I rewrite and edit each piece.

None of the above repeats work previously published as chapters in my other books. However,  I’m also considering including, with proper emphasis, my most important AutoHotkey epiphanies and “best practices” which do appear in the other books. This new, heavier e-book should be a good reference for almost anyone. Continue reading →

Get the Free AutoHotkey Tricks Book at Apple iBooks, Plus RegEx Book Update

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How to Find the Free AutoHotkey Tricks Book on Apple iBooks

AutoHotkey_Tricks_150Even though you can now get AutoHotkey Tricks You Ought To Do With Windows (Fourth Edition) free on Amazon.com, you can’t get it free in the United Kingdom or other non-US Amazon sites—at least not yet. Of course, you can always download it directly from our free page no matter where you live. However, alternatives are now available—in particular Apple iBooks. The following links direct you to Apple pages which offer AutoHotkey Tricks free in various parts of the world:

United States

Apple iBooks

Barnes and Noble Nook

Kobo

United Kingdom

Apple iBooks

Canada

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Australia

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Germany

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Spain

Apple iBooks

France

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Italy

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Brazil

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Japan

Apple iBooks

These promotions contribute to my efforts to make the Windows world more aware of the benefits of AutoHotkey. You may also find the book free at other Web outlets.

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Don’t Forget! Why AutoHotkey? book giveaway on Amazon,
on Monday, May 1, 2017! Tell a friend!

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How to Update Your Copy of Digging Deeper into AutoHotkey or AutoHotkey Applications

Cover 200I’ve completed the update of A Beginner’s Guide to Using Regular Expressions in AutoHotkey. The old Dropbox Download page and other obsolete links in the e-books have been updated reflecting the Free AutoHotkey Scripts page which now supports all available AutoHotkey scripts. (For direct access to the files, go to the ComputorEdge AutoHotkey Download page.) I uploaded the latest version of the book to Amazon and all formats on ComputorEdge E-Books. (I only one book to go and since it is the most recent book, I think it will go quickly.) Continue reading →

AutoHotkey Tricks E-Book for Kindle Now Free on Amazon

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If You Use the Amazon Kindle, Get Your Copy of AutoHotkey Tricks Directly from Amazon—Free!

AutoHotkey_Tricks_150Already free everywhere else, you can now obtain a copy of AutoHotkey Tricks You Ought To Do With Windows directly from Amazon at no cost. The book offers a number of ways you should use AutoHotkey, but, more importantly, it includes the “Table of Contents” and “Book Index” from each of the other six paid AutoHotkey e-books. It acts as a handy reference for anyone looking for a specific scripting solution. One search of this e-book scans the indexes of all six books in one go.

While AutoHotkey Tricks is always free, the next free giveaway of the Why AutoHotkey? book on Amazon is next Monday, May 1, 2017! Tell a friend!

Digging Deeper into AutoHotkey and AutoHotkey Applications E-Books Updated April 26, 2017

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How to Update Your Copy of Digging Deeper into AutoHotkey or AutoHotkey Applications

I’ve completed the updates of Digging Deeper into AutoHotkey and AutoHotkey Applications. The old Dropbox Download page and other obsolete links in the e-books have been updated reflecting the Free AutoHotkey Scripts page which now supports all available AutoHotkey scripts. (For direct access to the files, go to the ComputorEdge AutoHotkey Download page.) I uploaded the latest versions of the books to Amazon and all formats on ComputorEdge E-Books. (I plan this update for each of my books and will announce it on this blog when each new edition becomes available.) Continue reading →

A Beginner’s Guide to AutoHotkey E-Book Updated April 19, 2017

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How to Update Your Copy of A Beginner’s Guide to AutoHotkey

Beginner's Guide to AutoHotkeyAfter the AutoHotkey Hotstrings book, I immediately moved on to updating my first AutoHotkey e-book, A Beginner’s Guide to AutoHotkey. The old Dropbox Download page and other obsolete links in the e-book have been updated reflecting the Free AutoHotkey Scripts page which now supports all available AutoHotkey files. (For direct access to the files, go to the ComputorEdge AutoHotkey Download page.) I uploaded the latest versions of the book to Amazon and all formats on ComputorEdge E-Books. (I plan this update for each of my books and will announce it on this blog when each new edition becomes available.) Continue reading →

Beginning AutoHotkey Hotstrings E-Book Updated

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How to Update Your Copy of Beginning AutoHotkey Hotstrings

Beginning AutoHotkey Hotstrings 200pxBased on feedback from readers, the old Dropbox Download page links in the e-book Beginning AutoHotkey Hotstrings have been updated to reflect the Free AutoHotkey Scripts page which now supports all available AutoHotkey files. (For direct access to the files, go to the ComputorEdge AutoHotkey Download page.) I uploaded the latest versions of the book to Amazon and all formats on ComputorEdge E-Books. (I plan this update for each of my books and will announce it on this blog when each new edition becomes available.) Continue reading →