Thread 105567150

How do people work office jobs without using autohotkeys (or Linux/Mac equivalent)?
I have made 100s of ahk scripts for various random tasks I've had to do at work. I can't imagine working without it, especially doing a job that any job that requires repetitive inputs.

>>105567150 (OP)
why are you asking the unemployed niggers board?

>>105567150 (OP)
Can you give examples? Generally curious.

>>105567157
Is that a child?
Why do you have this pic on your computer?

>>105567157
Woah.. SEXY CHILD
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>>105567150 (OP)
examples? i use ahk for some stuff, but it's not a lot.

>>105567203
It's my daughter, I can't have pictures of my daughter on my computer? I literally made her and the computer is also my bought property.

>>105567157
is that ciara again?

>>105567157
hot

>>105567184
We have an inventory management software that requires manually fulfilling sales orders. You have to go through a couple modules putting in quantities and locations. Instead of doing it by hand I made a script that takes the order information from a file and fills in the required information in the software.

Also, they don't have to be super complex, they can be as simple as mapping ctrl+c and ctrl+v to a single key to make it easier.

>>105567157
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>>105567701
don't think she is fertile yet, but she will be soon

>>105567263
interesting because i think youd have a better time doing all that sort of scripting on linux rather than relying on AHK hacks.
businesses are missing out on productivity using windows instead, excel keeping them there.

I used this to cheat the market board in ffxiv. I got to Gil cap and then had to start storing it in my retainers.
If you don't know what any of that means all I can say is this: automation is a powerful thing

>>105567851
like for example heres a bunch of custom scripts this guy made that use rofi to do all sorts of stuff for him.
https://github.com/giomatfois62/rofi-desktop

>>105567150 (OP)
For a job dealing with annoying normie software that needs GUI interaction, and for vidya game scripting, there is not substitute. Of course you can still rebind keys and automate things on linux, but that stuff doesn't have the same level of control and useful pre-built shit that AHK has.

You guys are trolling, right?
Just program macro’s in MS office? Why would you be using an auto hot key software running on top of the office software?

>>105567926
If you only use office and nothing more sophisticated you will be replaced

>>105568008
it’s a part time job paying 30$/hour while doing my postgrad, fine with me

>>105568008
by what, chatgpt? lmao

>>105568026
Some day you will grow up and be an adult though

>>105568037
By people that can use office and other software too

AHK is cope for interfaces with poor composability. Even on Windows I'd rather just write an actual script when I can.

>>105568046
>>105568008
And this so called “other sophisticated software” you’re referring so highly to, requires autohotkey running on the side, like a true jeet straight out of the slums of Mumbai, in order to automate repetitive work?

>>105568046
What the fuck are you talking about? Glib faggot.

Is it just me or does the documentation for this V2 kind of suck?

At work we use one big centralised database system which runs like shit most of the time, and the frontend GUI was designed to avoid scaring tech illiterate people- meaning it's also very heavily mouse-click driven; eg. searching a client by ID is one of the few things that can be done without touching a mouse, and it involves hitting Tab no less than 17 times (also when I'm configuring the query parameters for certain data export tasks I have to scroll down a list of ~11k options in box 50 pixels tall and each one individually while holding Ctrl). So I'm definitely very interested in putting together some workflow automations, but the Windows Spy tool can't seem to detect anything unique about the window the DB frontend runs in, and the tutorials among the AHK documentation pages gives me no real clue on how to proceed; like, I think I'm going to have to rely on the ImageSearch function, using particular elements of the GUI as landmarks for geometry to calculate where to click, but is there a better way? Fucked if I know, all I can find is people talking about v1 or in situations where the Windows Spy actually helped.

>>105568326
The documentation for V2 is fine, just lacking good examples of more advanced things you can do. V1.1 docs have the same issue.

The real problem is that Search engines do not index the public v2 forums for AHK. So if you google something, you're always getting answers for v1.1, and you have to go into the forum and search there to get answers for v2. Not to mention that a lot of support now has shifted to discord, so you'll need to make an account if you need help.

>>105568326
Surely the right answer here is to connect to the database from your own terminal instead of setting up AHK on the GUI like a jeet?

>>105568326
WindowSpy will only find individual buttons/controls if they use the Win32 API for its GUI.
If it can't find the individual controls, it's not Win32, e.g. try it on your browser it won't work, then open RegEdit and try it on that.
Best bet is to use the tab key to navigate in scripts since it's always consistent. Shift+tab will navigate in the opposite direction.

>>105567150 (OP)
...work?
office job?

You're doing it wrong nigga.

bash scripts. i also use lua sometimes too (just because i like the syntax).

>>105567184
A friend of mine recently showed me an ahk script that implemented an entire GUI with the purpose of rapidly tagging his images. It was pretty nifty.
I couldn't use it because AutoHotKey doesn't have Linux support. I don't know what's the closest Linux alternative.

Noob here, is it hard to make them yourself?