

The books primarily address AutoHotkey version 1.1 with some references and examples of version 2.0. If necessary, I will email copies of the books upon request to those who need additional access due to computer crashes or other unusual events.Īll the books currently on the site are up-to-date and I currently have no plans for further updates. I have downloaded all of the order information and will continue to support the availability of the books in your orders. For those who have purchased through the site (or plan to before June), don’t worry. That means the site that will no longer be available for sale of the books. Bottom line: unless you have a good reason, stick to the default and click Next.I have recently learned the ISP supporting the shopping cart I use for my AutoHotkey books will drop the product after May of this year. Regarding ANSI, you should only choose this option if there’s a specific script you’d like to run which you know for sure doesn’t play well with Unicode. If you’re running a 64-bit version of Windows you could opt for the 64-bit Unicode version, but it doesn’t offer significant performance gains for most scripts. We recommend to keep this at the default, Unicode 32-bit.

The installer is fairly straightforward except for this next step which offers multiple choices: Okay, now that you’ve downloaded the executable, it’s time to set it up. Out of these, AutoHotkey_L was chosen as “AutoHotkey’s future”, and is now offered on the official download page. Since the project is open-source and has an vibrant developer community, a number of efforts to continue development were started.

What happened is that AutoHotkey’s original developer decided to stop working on the project but AutoHotkey wouldn’t die so fast. You may be wondering why the download page offers both AutoHotkey_L and AutoHotkey Basic. A Bit of History: Why Are There Two Versions?
